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GRADUATE CLUB.- Professor Lyon will speak on "Babylonian Influence on the Mediterranean Coast in the Fifteenth Century, B. C." at the Union Club Rooms, 414 Harvard...
...Babylonian explorers who were sent out last year by the University of Pennsylvania, have secured 3000 tablets. which will soon be brought back to the university...
...field" is successfully treated as the foundation of a novel, yet this book brings out the customs and conditions of Babylon at the time of Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel in a clear and entertaining manner. The story leaves a vivid impression of the almost superhuman hower of the Babylonian kings...
...every investigation that sheds light on their times. This the inscriptions do more fully than any other line of study. By making the general course of contemporary history in western Asia clear, by furnishing precise chronological data, and by clearing up a multitude of references in the prophets to Babylonian and Assyrian matters, the cuneiform inscriptions are the best friend to the student of the prophets. The so-called "contract tablets," by revealing all phases of the social life at Babylon while the Jews were there in exile in the sixth century B. C., are particularly helpful, because they show...
Prof. Lyon's lecture yesterday was on the "Cuneiform Inscriptions an the Psalter." The Babylonians and Assyrians had many hymns and psalms which resemble the psalms of the Old Testament in form, in tone and in expression. The most striking resemblances occur in the class of psalms called penitential. Several of these productions were translated. When the Jews were exiled at Babylon in the sixth century B. C., they could not fail to be impressed by the splendid ritual of which these psalms were a part, and it is not unlikely that they may have adopted some of them, with...