Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conference meeting last night Professor Toy spoke on The Old Testament in the light of other Semitic Literature. The Old Testament, said Professor Toy, is the only remainder of the old Hebrew literature; it is the most rounded and complete of all ancient Semitic literature. Beginning with the organization of Hebrew tribes, when Saul became king, it was brought out a century later in literary shape. The old Semitic literature has a very small compass. Much of the little that there was has been lost, and many of the tribes had none. There was a regular order of production...
...their political life. The Old Testament represents the literary element under the Semitic Regime. It follows the order of literary production; folk-lore, followed by a collection of laws and brief annals, then by prophetic discourses, history and poetry,- but with out any philosophy. The collection of Prophets represents Hebrew oratory; the books of Judges, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles represent history; and the books of Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes represent poetry...
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...
...which these psalms were a part, and it is not unlikely that they may have adopted some of them, with the necessary changes in favor of monotheism, into their own psalm-book. The stereopticon views presented temples, sacrificial laws, and psalms, the Babylonian in the cuneiform character and the Hebrew in the Hebrew character. Specially noteworthy was the fragment of a Babylonian alliterative hymn, divided into paragraphs of five lines each. all the lines in a given paragraph beginning with the same sign or syllable. The hymn was in praise of a restorer of the great temple at Babylon...
...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 was an enemy to the Creator. In the Baby lonian form...