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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Master of the Magicians," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward, is an historical romance dealing with the period of the captivity of the Jews at Babylon. It is exceedingly interesting. It is seldom that a period so remote that "fact and fable contend for the field" is successfully treated as the foundation of a novel, yet this book brings out the customs and conditions of Babylon at the time of Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel in a clear and entertaining manner. The story leaves a vivid impression of the almost superhuman hower of the Babylonian kings...
...future except to draw thence new arguments for in fluencing the lives of his contemporaries. The picture of the future is such as is needed by the present. Isaiah and Jeremiah present the gloomy prospect of captivity in Assyria and Babylon, while a later prophet, just before the exile period closes, points in glowing terms the glories of the return to Judea. The prophet was in an important sense, a man of his time, and he always appeared in connection with great national epochs which demanded his presence. As men of their times, occupying a definite place in the history...
...winged composite creatures answering to the Hebrew cherubim; but the account of a seduction of man by a tempter has not yet come to light. Corresponding to the ten antediluvian patriarchs of Genesis, the Babylonians believed in ten kings whose reign had extended over a fabulous period of time. The deluge story, which is an episode in the national epic, is too similar to the version in Genesis for the two to be of different origin. The ruined tower of Borsippe, called Birs Nimrud, has long been associated with the Tower of Babel. Several stereopticon views of this magnificent ruin...
...indebted of course to the Bible for much of Jewish history. It goes back about four thousand years from our day. The Babylonians in this period were permeated with a spirit of conquest and roved over much of Westem Asia. Their life is clear to us from their records from 1000 B. C. down. About 800 B. C. the Assyrians also started out on a western campaign. Abeut 770 B. C. there came to their throne one of their greatest kings. A hundred years later the kingdom was in pieces...
...into the poetry of the Edda and Skald or court poetry. The Icelandic poet was not a poet in the strict sense of the word, but a story teller who wandered about reciting tales of Scandinavian origin. The Saga, the heroic tradition of the Norsemen, is divided in three periods: the heroic period up to 1030; the period of development from 1030 to 1100, and a third period from 1100 to 1200, during which all these legends were written down. In speaking of the Nibelungenlied, Professor Smith said there is no comparison between the Icelandic version and its present form...