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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ve the broad, re-splendent, law-bound canopy of the stars,—it was thisYahveh that constituted the primordial patrimony ofthose Canaanite tribes from which centuries afterwardthe twelve tribes of Israel sprang. The religion of the Canaanite tribes that emigratedto Babylonia rapidly succumbed, indeed, before the poly-theism that had been practised for centuries by the an-cient inhabitants of that country. But this polytheismby no means strikes an unsympathetic chord in us, atleast so far as its conception of its gods is concerned, all^>f whom were living, omnipotent, and omnipresent be-ings that hearkened unto the prayers of men, and who,however much incensed they might become at the sins ofmen, were always immediately ready again with offers ofmercy and reconciliation. And likewise the representa-tions which these deities found in Babylonian art, as for.instance that of the sun-god of Sippar enthroned in hisHoly of Holies (Fig. 57)x are far removed from every - 1 See also Fig. 31.
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Fig. 57. The SuNGod of Sippar Enthroned in His Holy of Holies. (Lenormant, V., p. 301.) 64 BABEL AND BIBLE. thing that savors of the ugly, the ignoble, or the gro-tesque. The Prophet Ezekiel (chap, i.) in his visions ofhis Lord saw God enter on a living chariot formed of fourwinged creatures with the face of a man, a lion, an ox,and an eagle, and on the heads of these cherubim he saw(x. l) a crystal surface supporting a sapphire throne onwhich God was seated in the likeness of a man, bathed inthe most resplendent radiance.. Noting carefully these

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