Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 in the Jewish nation if the Persian kings had not written their records in parallel columns, one in the Persian and the other in the Babylonian tongue. During the Babylonian and Assyrianan scendancy there lived among the Jews many of their great prophets. When the Jews were carried to Babylon in captivity these kept records...
...this theory were the most learned and distinguished men of their respective nations. The masses of men soon followed their leadership for the majority of men need but to have a new theory cleverly presented to them to become its strenuous supporters. The three great monotheistic religions are the Jewish, Christian and Mohammedan. It is true that at first the Jewish religion was polytheistic but little by little all the lesser gods lost their devotees and finally after the Jews came back fram their Babylonian captivity in the sixth century B. C., the worship of Jehovah alone was firmly established...
Professor Toy then spoke of the intense nationality of Jewish life, of the difference which existed between the Jewish and Mohammedan, the Mohammedan and Christian religions. In conclusion he said that that Monotheism has always been symbolical of advancing thought and high conceptions of the deity, for it has for its fundamental truth that there...
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...they have shown, as they have shown today a surprising power of accepting and pushing the ideas of the people among whom they dwell. It is by the combination and interaction of great national cultures that the civilization of the world has advanced; Christianity itself shows a fusion of Jewish, Greek, and Roman ideas. Each element of civilization must have its due recognition...