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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Egyptian court; and the museum at Berlin is so fortunate as to possess the only letters that came from Jerusalem, letters written before the entrance of the Israelites into the promised land. Like a powerful searchlight, these clay tablets of El-Amarna shed a flood of dazzling effulgence upon the profound obscurity which shrouded the political and cultural conditions of the period from 1500 to 1400 B.C.; and the mere fact that the magnates of Canaan, nay, even of Cyprus, made use of the
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Fig. 41. The palaces of Nimrud. Imanigative restoration. From a sketch by James Ferguson (Layard).
Babylonian language and script, and like the Babylonians wrote on clay tablets, the mere fact that the Babylonian language was the official language of diplomatic intercourse from the Euphrates to the Nile, is in itself indisputable proof of the omnipotent influence which Babylonian civilisation and literature exercised on the world from the year 2200 until 1400 B.C. When the twelve tribes of Israel invaded the land of Canaan, they entered a country which belonged absolutely to the domain of Babylonian civilisation. It is an unimportant but characteristic feature of the prevailing state of things that a Babylonish garment excited the avarice of Achan when the first Canaanite city, Jericho, was stormed and plundered (Joshua vii. 21). And not only the industry, but also the commerce and law, the customs and the science of Babylon were the standards of the land. Knowing this, we comprehend at once why the systems of measures, weights, and coins used in the Old Testament,

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