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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ter days? It is a pity that so many people permit their delightin the great advantage which Babel is constantly offeringus as interpreter and illustrator of the Bible to bespoiled by a narrow regard for dogmatic questions to sucha degree that they even entirely ignore that advantage.And yet, how grateful all readers of and commentatorson the Bible must needs be for the new knowledge whichhas been revealed, and is constantly being revealed, to usby the laborious excavations among the ruins of Babylonand Assyria! On principle I too avoid continually speaking ofli confirmations of the Bible. For indeed the Old Tes-tament as a source of ancient history would be in a bad 72 BABEL AND BIBLE. case if it required everywhere confirmation by cuneiforminscriptions. But when the Biblical Books of Kings (2 ■ wm^X% ..Sv„ Fig. 59. The Ruins at Tell Ibrahim, Site of the City of Kutha. Kings xvii. 30) states that the inhabitants of the city ofKutha who settled in Samaria worshipped the god Nergal,
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Fig. 6o. Nergal, the Patron God of Kutha.
and we now know, not alone that this Babylonian city ofKutha (Fig. 59) lies buried under the ruins at Tell Ibra- BABEL AND BIBLE. 73 him, twenty-one miles northeast of Babylon, but also thata cuneiform inscription expressly informs us that thepatron god of Kutha was called Nergal (Fig. 60),—thisis really valuable information. While there seemed to be no prospect of ever dis-covering the town and district of Chalach, to which aportion of the Israelites taken captive by Sargon were

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