. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . r, premise that the really important andvaluable archaeological discoveries are not those which merelycorroborate isolated biblical statements, the correctness of which hasnever been challenged; but those which rectify or supplement thebiblical statements, and especially those which enable us to forma picture of the history and civilization of the East as a whole andof the place taken by Israel in it, and of the nature of the influenceswhich, as we now see, it exerted upon Israel. One of the firstachievements of Assyriology was the translation of t
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . r, premise that the really important andvaluable archaeological discoveries are not those which merelycorroborate isolated biblical statements, the correctness of which hasnever been challenged; but those which rectify or supplement thebiblical statements, and especially those which enable us to forma picture of the history and civilization of the East as a whole andof the place taken by Israel in it, and of the nature of the influenceswhich, as we now see, it exerted upon Israel. One of the firstachievements of Assyriology was the translation of the inscriptionon the celebrated Black Obelisk, sent to London by Layard in 1846,and now a conspicuous object in the British Museum. The upper 1 For further particulars respecting several of the discoveries here noticed,and also for some account of many not noticed here at all, see the writersessay in Hogarths Authority and Archaeology (1809), pp. 1-152. Thosementioned here are arranged in such a way as to illustrate the progress The Black Obelisk ok Shalmakeseh II The second tier from the top represents the tribute of Jehu. Prom Stades Geschichtt des Volkes Israel, i L887), p. 563. ro fact }) 16 g m:p;yt^w
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