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“THE CREATION AND DELUGE STORIES” IS FIRST OF FIVE. Sunday Afternoon Course, “The Old Testament in the Light of the Cuneiform Inscriptions.” Assistant Professor A. T. Clay, Ph. D., of the Department of Archeology, delivered the first of a series of five lectures, on cuneiform inscriptions, in the Houston Hall auditorium yesterday afternoon. These lectures will take place on Sunday afternoons as fol lows. November 12th—“The Tower of Ba bel and Genesis XIV.” November 19th—‘Life in Babylonia at the Time of Abraham.” November 26th—‘Life in Assyria at the Time of Isaiah.” December 10th—‘“Babylonia in the Time of Ezra.” Members of the University and the public are invited. An outline of the course follows: I. Introductory remarks: The inter est displayed in the excavations. Great service rendered by the monu ments. Reconstruction of early his tory. Corroboration of historical points of the Old Testament. Elucida tion of the Old Testament. Israel de veloped as a nation in a land enriched by a civilization milleniums old. Early Babylonian references to Canaan. Babylonian influence. Il. The great antiquity of man. Chronology for pre-Abrahamic period. Septuagint chronology. Excavations at Tello, Nippur, Fara and Bismaya. Lesson learned from stratification of debris. Everything points to a great antiquity back of what is now known. Iii. The Babylonian creative story: The library of Ashurbanipal. Rela tion of the Bible to Babylonia.
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Philadelphia Daily Pennsylvanian
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Nov 06, 1905
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