Author: Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780282565336

Excerpt from The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review, Vol. 11: July 1874 Prior to the excavations just referred to, scarcely a single As syrian object was known to be in existence. There was not a museum in Europe that possessed a specimen of Assyrian work manship, or anything whatever representative of a style of civil ization, the last vestige of which was supposed to have perished from the earth. Now every great museum has its Assyrian de partment and the monumental remains of Assyria have be come as familiar as those of any nation of antiquity. The life and manners of its people are exhibited in scenes faithfully por trayed by themselves. The degree of their advancement in the arts, both useful and ornamental, is shown in their structures and in articles of their handiwork. Their very language has been, to some extent, recovered and whole volumes of inscrip tions have been found which have been already, with a good measure of success, deciphered. These are leading the way to a recovery of their science, religion and history from the almost total oblivion which heretofore oppressed them. The historian and the antiquary are eagerly availing themselves of these discoveries and laboring to construct, as far as this may prove possible, a true conception of this ancient empire. And students of the Bible are busy in gathering up that which may tend to its illustration or defence. So that here again Assyria is in a new and unanticipated manner serving with Egypt. These great op pressors, which in their prosperity and power seemed to threaten the continued existence of God's earthly kingdom, are now by their monuments singularly helpful and auxiliary to that king dom. He who used the Assyrian as the rod of his anger, now. Summons him from the dust of centuries as a witness to his truth. In what we here say of the Assyrian monuments we cannot, of Course, attempt to treat of the entire subject of them relation to the Bible. The field is too broad to be explored, even super ficially, in a single article. We must, accordingly, pass by the graphic delineations upon the walls of their palaces, much as they offer that is inviting. We must pass by the religion and mythology of Assyria with the tablet describing the deluge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.