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...Cuneiform Inscriptions and Genesis. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor Lyon lectured in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, on "The Cuneiform Inseriptions and Hebrew History." Professor Lyon said...
...always a question as to how one shall find Cuneiform inscriptions, and how read them. They are found through Babylon and Assyria. Three years ago there wers found in Egypt some wonderful letters written about too B. C., in the Cuneiform script. The Old Testament aids us largely. It is a series of old letters written at about the time of the Babylonian and Assyrian civilization. If certain persons had not found similar letters in the Persian language, it is probable it might never have been clear. Even then we might never have known the sequence of historical events...
Finally, the Cuneiform Inscriptions are important as making clear the general trend of history in Western Asia, and also of many strange names occurring in the Old Testament hitherto not to be accounted...
...Cuneiform Inscriptions and Hebrew History. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...