. Christian herald and signs of our times . secure incarelesslythe while her desk, but which had beenleft in a corner of the sofa all Margaret E. Sangster. Archaeology and the Bible. The student of the Old Testament,writesProf. Price of the Theological Departmentof the Chicago University,finds in archaeol-ogy manv contributions of surpassing in-terest. We are now certain that writingwas not invented in the time of David andSolomon; that it had been in use manyyears before Joshua inscribed the com-mandments in clay upon the altar atShechem; that Moses was reared in a liter-ary court, surrounded
. Christian herald and signs of our times . secure incarelesslythe while her desk, but which had beenleft in a corner of the sofa all Margaret E. Sangster. Archaeology and the Bible. The student of the Old Testament,writesProf. Price of the Theological Departmentof the Chicago University,finds in archaeol-ogy manv contributions of surpassing in-terest. We are now certain that writingwas not invented in the time of David andSolomon; that it had been in use manyyears before Joshua inscribed the com-mandments in clay upon the altar atShechem; that Moses was reared in a liter-ary court, surrounded by an educatedpriesthood who were in possession of re-markable literary products of an Oldertime; and that, in the fifteenth and six-teenth centuries , Asia and Africa car-ried on extensive literary correspondenceby means of the cuneiform writing ofBabylonia. We know also that Egvptlias left us writings from at least thefourth dvnastv—a date more than 4000years The illiterate argument h isgone to pieces in the face of such fact
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