Word: psalter
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Prof. Lyon's lecture yesterday was on the "Cuneiform Inscriptions an the Psalter." The Babylonians and Assyrians had many hymns and psalms which resemble the psalms of the Old Testament in form, in tone and in expression. The most striking resemblances occur in the class of psalms called penitential. Several of these productions were translated. When the Jews were exiled at Babylon in the sixth century B. C., they could not fail to be impressed by the splendid ritual of which these psalms were a part, and it is not unlikely that they may have adopted some of them, with...
...Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Psalter. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Psalter. Illustrated lecture. Professor Lyon. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Inscriptions and the Psalter...
...Inscriptions and the Psalter...