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Professor Lyon spoke at the College Conference last evening on "the Hebrew Prophet." The books recommended for a proper understanding of the subject were Sayce's Times of Isaiah, and Selvader's Cuneiform Inscriptions, and the Old Testament...
...produced by, religious development. There are two sources from which we draw our knowledge of Hebrew history, namely, native and foreign. The first consists chiefly of the Old Testament itself, a Jewish writer named Josephus, and the ruins and inscriptions in Palestine. The most important foreign source is the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia. The whole Hebrew Biblical history may be divided into five distinct periods, each marked by various characteristics. The adoption of monotheism was one of the most noteworthy of these...
...With the cuneiform inscriptions and the prophets Professor Lyon completed yesterday the course of public lectures. He said that the inscriptions interpret or illustrate every branch of Old Testament study, Genesis, the history, the poetry, the religion, and, to a special degree, the prophets. The Hebrew prophet is not, as the popular notion too often makes him, primarily a student of the distant future, whose chief function is predictive. On the contrary he is a reformer, a preacher of righteousness, a man of affairs, concerned with the present, and rarely, if ever, looking to the future except to draw thence...
...Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Prophets. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...THURSDAY.The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Prophets. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...