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Title: Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments

Author: Archibald Henry Sayce

Release Date: June 18, 2010 [Ebook #32883]

Language: English

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Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments

A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible, From Recent
Discoveries in:

Egypt. Palestine. Assyria. Babylonia. Asia Minor.

by

Archibald Henry Sayce, M.A.

Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford.

Hon. LL.D., Dublin.

Second Edition.

London:

The Religious Tract Society.

36, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul's Churchyard.

1884

CONTENTS

Preface.
Chapter I. Introduction.
Chapter II. The Book of Genesis.
Chapter III. The Exodus out of Egypt.
Chapter IV. The Moabite Stone and the Inscription of Siloam.
Chapter V. The Empire of the Hittites.
Chapter VI. The Assyrian Invasions.
Chapter VII. Nebuchadrezzar and Cyrus.
Appendix I.
Appendix II.
Index.
Footnotes

PREFACE.

[Illustration.]

Monument of a Hittite king, accompanied by an inscription in Hittite
hieroglyphics, discovered on the site of Carchemish and now in the British
Museum.

The object of this little book is explained by its title. Discovery after
discovery has been pouring in upon us from Oriental lands, and the
accounts given only ten years ago of the results of Oriental research are
already beginning to be antiquated. It is useful, therefore, to take stock
of our present knowledge, and to see how far it bears out that "old story"
which has been familiar to us from our childhood. The same spirit of
scepticism which had rejected the early legends of Greece and Rome