Word: babylonia
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...space of 1500 square feet has been assigned the University of Pennsylvania for its exhibit at the World's Fair. Among other things there will be a complete exhibit of the articles found by the University exhibition to Babylonia two years ago. There is in this collection a stone recording the oldest known writing in the world, the date being 3800 B. C,, as well as seals and clay tablets representing the business life of that and succeeding periods. Another portion will show the important work recently done by the university in American Archaeology, especially in the Delaware valley...
Illustrated Lecture. American Expedition to Babylonia. Discovery of the original Temple and High-place of Bel. Professor J. P. Peters, University of Pennsylvania, Leader of the Expedition. Jefferson Physical Labratory...
Illustrated Lecture. American Expedition to Babylonia. Discovery of the original Temple and High-place of Bel. Professor J. P. Peters, University of Pennsylvania, Leader of the Expedition, Jefferson Physical Labratory...
...Greenough White's Bible class which has been meeting on Wednesday evenings, has taken up the following subjects: Babylonia; Persian mon archy; Post-exilian psalms, giving aims and emotions of Jews; formation of Old Testament canon; the Temple and Synagogue and great influence on early Christianity of Jewis ideas, strengthened by contact with Persians. Last Wednesday night Haggai was studied from a literary standpoint, and approached as a preacher or writer of our own time. Five points of interpretation or higher criticism were considered: character of author; plan of composition of the prophecy; date of composition; the people to whom...
...fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek art we must go in part to Babylonia and Assyria. Our alphabet came from a Semitic community. The Phoenicians were the intermediaries between the peoples of the ancient world, the founders of ocean commerce, the bearers of culture from the Euphrates valley to the Pillars of Hercules. The Syrians introduced the Arabs to the study of Greek science...