Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the Department of Semitic Languages and History courses 4, 5, 6, A5, and A6 take up various phases of Hebrew history, religion, and literature. None of these are primarily for undergraduates, and none of them may be called popular courses, as may Government 1 or Economics 1. Semitic A5, "An Introduction to the Old Testament," seems promising, but it is omitted this year. History of Religions 10, "The Elements of Christianity," is one of the few courses, touching the Bible, primarily intended for undergraduates...
Professor D. G. Lyon, Ph.D., D.D., Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, and Curator of the Semitic Museum, will speak on "The Origin and Aim of the Harvard Expedition, with an Account of the Work done in 1908," in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. This is the first of two lectures on the Harvard Excavations in Samaria. Professor Reisner will give the second lecture on the work done in 1909 and 1910, on April 5. Both lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides and will be open...
...financial support of Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, has been excavating the ruins of Samaria, the capital of Israel. The site is so extensive that less than one-twentieth part has been excavated in three years' work. The chief aim of the operations, the recovery of remains from the Hebrew period, was reached in the second and third years. The objects found in 1908 were mainly of the Greek and Roman periods, the most important being a marble statue (probably Angustus), a large altar, and an imposing stairway. Professor Lyon spent the summer of 1908 at Samaria, and his lecture this...
...work in Egypt has been carried on in the winter time. Professor Reisner has spent the past two summers and a part of 1908 in Palestine, digging at Samaria, the ancient Hebrew capital, for the Semitic Museum of the University. There he made two discoveries of greatest importance. One of these, the Palace of Omis and his son, Ahab, gives an entirely new conception of the work of the ancient Hebrew architects. The other consists of a hundred fragments of pottery with inscriptions written in ink, which are the earliest Hebraic inscriptions ever found...
...just been received from London that the Harvard excavators at Samaria have been so fortunate as to discover nearly a hundred tablets, supposed to be a portion of the archives of King Ahab, written in ink and not engraved on the clay when it was soft. They are in Hebrew characters. One is reported to be a letter from an unknown King of Assyria which, if in Hebrew, is undoubtedly a translation. This discovery will probably be of great importance to students of archaeology...