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Professor D. G. Lyon will give the first course of three lectures, beginning on November 11, on "Recent Discoveries in Palestine." Professor Toy's series of three lectures on "The Formation of the Hebrew Psalter" will follow on December 2, 9, and 16. After Christmas the first lectures will be two by Rev. Professor E. C. Moore on "The Nature of Christianity in the Far East." Professor G. F. Moore will give two lectures on January 20 and 27 on "The Origin of Religion," and he will be followed on February 3 and 10 by Dean W. W. Fenn...
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...