Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Aramaic literature is almost wholly, either Jewish or Christian. The Jewish is represented by some parts of the books of Ezra and Daniel. The Christian form is commonly called Syriac. No pre-Christian literature exists. Such a literature probably arose with the pagan culture; but with the translation of the Bible into the Aramaic dialect of Odyessa, it disappeared...
Last evening in Sever 5, H. E. Addison '96, one of the successful competitors for the Bowdoin Prizes, read his dissertation on "The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time." The first part of the dissertation treated in an exhaustive manner of the boyhood and development of the Emperor Julian, his relation toward Christianity and to Paganism, and his contact with Neo-Platonism. The second part deals with the great Pagan reaction of the fourth century, with the immensity of the task to which Julian's religious beliefs had brought him, and with his ultimate failure...
...usual custom by which the winners of the Bowdoin Prizes are invited to read their dissertations in public, H. E. Addison '96, one of the successful competitors this year, will read his dissertation this evening at 7.30, in Sever 5. The subject is "The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time...
Reading of Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time. Mr. H. E. Addison. Sever...
Reading of Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time. Mr. H. E. Addison. Sever...