Word: babylonian-assyrian
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...specimens may be mentioned from the Babylonian-Assyrian Room. Of casts we find the Babylonian code of Laws, promulgated nearly a thousand years before Moses, by Hammurabi (the Amraphel of Genesis XIV); Jehu, King of Israel (2 KI, IX); bowing in submission to an Assyrian conqueror; Sennacherib on his fateful Palestinian campaign (2 Kl, XVIII; Isa, XXXVI); the Assyrian story of the Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian...
...find distinct evidence of a high civilization in Babylon as early as 3800 B. C., and by 1500 B. C. the Babylonian-Assyrian culture had spread over Western Asia to the Mediterranean. But our knowledge of that civilization, said the lecturer, has come to us during the present century, most of it indeed since 1840. The French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations...
Owing to lack of space, there are many cases of casts which cannot yet be exhibited, but the collection as it stands is, very interesting. It contains Babylonian-Assyrian seals and clay tablets, coins, photographs, manuscripts, and a selection of casts from the finest of the Semitic monuments in the various European museums. Of the manuscripts, only a few are exhibited in the railing case. They are Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew, and among the latter area roll of the Law and rolls of the Prophets. Some of them are from Arabia and contain a translation into Arabic in addition...
...provisional scheme for the special courses in this department is as follows: "Buddhism," Professor M. Bloomfield, Johns Hopkins University; "The Babylonian-Assyrian Religion," Professor M. Jastrow, University of Pennsylvania; "Mazdeism," (not yet provided for); "Islam," Professor G. F. Moore, Andover Theological Seminary; "The Greek Religion," (not yet provided for); "The Old Norse Religion," Professor G. L. Kittredge, Harvard University...
...lecture yesterday Prof. Lyon showed the close relationship between the first eleven chapters in Genesis and similar narratives in the Babylonian-Assyrian literature. In some cases, as the Deluge, the cuneiform account is almost completely recovered; in others. owing to the terrible fate that befell Assyrian libraries, only small fragments have yet been found. The use to which the Hebrews put this material constitutes the great superiority in the Hebrew versions. The writer of Genesis replaced polytheism by monotheism. Some things he left out, and retained only echoes of other portions. Thus, we find in Genesis a serpent which...