Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special course in Hebrew has been started at the University of Pennsylvania...
...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 to the Hebrew text. The oldest of the manuscripts is a copy of the Gospels written...
...Hebrew prophets were the creators of practical menotheism for the world...
...year of 1825 more than one-third the college course was spent on Greek and Latin; Mathematics occupied almost another third; history, mostly ancient, and philosophy, religiously ethical, took up a large share of the remainder. The study of English was about on a parity with the study of Hebrew. Natural Science and political economy barely gained a place in the catalogue, while the modern languages as subjects of study, were unheard...
...attention of men whom the midyears have kept away from morning chapel is called to the fact that Professor Lyon is each morning giving a most interesting talk on some one of the old characters in Hebrew history. The talks form a series of great value, and we recommend all who can to go to them...