Identifier: babelbibl00deli (find matches)
Title: Babel and Bible;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Delitzsch, Friedrich, 1850-1922 McCormack, Joseph, 1865- (from old catalog) tr Carruth, William Herbert, 1859-1924, (from old catalog) tr Robinson, Lydia Gillingham, b. 1875, tr
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Chicago, The Open court publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ure of a Jew of Lachish (Fig. 8), and here the repre-sentation of an Israelite of the time of Jehu, we are notlikely to be wrong in our conclusion that also the othernational types, for example the Elamite chieftain, theArab horseman, and the Babylonian merchant, have beendepicted and reproduced with the same fidelity and exact-ness. Particularly the Assyrians, who sixty years agowere supposed to have perished with all their history andcivilisation in the great river of time, have been madeknown to us in the minutest details by excavations inNineveh, and many passages in the prophetic books re-ceive gorgeous illustration from our discoveries. Thus,Isaiah describes in the following eloquent language theAssyrian troops: Behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: None shall beweary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep;neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet oftheir shoes be broken : Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows 12 BABEL AND BIBLE.
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Fig. 9. Bronze Gates of the Palace of Shalmaneser II. (At Balawat.) BABEL AND BIBLE. 13 bent, their horses hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheelslike a whirlwind : Their roaring shall be like a lion, yea, they shall

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