| Show babylonian literature at the annual meeting of the hebrew literary association of london held september an address by rabbi dr adler was read which gave an historical description of what has become known in regard to the conquests of amenophes Ame nophis III as shown in the archives of his palace which have only lately been discovered and which the rabbi went last winter to investigate on the spot before writ liag the address for the association above named of the tablets and iasci inscriptions options he said from them we learn that in the fifteenth century before our era a century before the exodus active literary intercourse was going on throughout the civilized world of western asia between babylon and egypt and the smaller states of palestine of syria of mesopotamia and even of eastern cappadocia Kapp adocia and this intercourse was carried on by means of the babylonian language and the complicated babylonian baby ionian script this implies that all over the civilized east there were libraries and schools where the babylonian language and literature were taught and learned babylonian appeared to have been as much the language of diplomacy and cultivated society as french has become iu in modern times with the difference that whereas it does not take long to learn to read french the cuneiform required years of hard i labor and attention before it could be acquired we can i stand the meaning of the namat tir 2 the city which atoa i ja near hebron and which news to have been one of the fostr impo antof ant of the towns of southern tine kirjath sepher or book 3 town must have been the BeB av famous library consisting mainly if not altogether as the ekil ek fl 4 1 adarna tablets inform us of mk day tablets inscribed with cuneio eb characters arac As the city also aim bok boft the name of dabir or ban sanctuary 0 we may conclude that the table were stored in its chief temples temple ml the libraries of assyria and ancl baffy lonia ionia it may ma y be that they i M lying under the soil awaiting atie 0 day y when th the 0 spa spade de of the tor shall restore them to the light the literary influence of bab babylon jows in the age before the Isra elizz conquest of palestine explains the occurrence of the names of babylonian deities among the of the west moses died on the of mount nebo which received HB name from the babylonian god of literature to whom the 9 great rest temple of borst Bor was ded dedicated ca A C aia sinai Itse itself rrth the woun mountain tat n cc oddo testifies to a worship of the babiy lonian ionian moon god sin in amid UN solitudes solitude of the desert moloch W was a 9 babylonian diviney like bammon the ier hir god after whom more than one locality loca locality fity ft n palestine was named and anat anal e wife of anu the sky god gave her name to the palestinian anah aa well as to Ana thoth the city rf qt the anat goddesses n i in a careful reading of the ta tablets rabbi adler came upon many ancient names and incidents known up to the present only from appearance in the bible all th he carefully described a ao weh web 00 several references in the tablets to TO the Hitt hittites ites in regard to another point h he old ever since the pro progress ass of logy made it clear t that at ram was waa the pharaoh of f the kopd oppression re it wrid IM cult to 0 u understand D der stand hoac h long an interval of time as the wame period of the eighteenth dyngos dy naoS could lie between him and the POW per king whose rise seems to have been followed follow Bd almost immediately by the servitude and oppression of the the brews the ta tablets beets of tel el albiam na now show that the difficult not exist up to the death of en aten the semite had ad g fluence than the natt native ve I 1 in n the law of mizraim referring Be ferring to those who h hawe formed opinions as to the non dou nonny DL ny character of the pan pentateuch wu rabbi adler said the adarna tablets have already 0 overthrown the primary found which much of this critt criticism been built rabbi adler closed his pa paper with a peroration of eloquence aang ta duty of searching for the brailes that must lie burled buried the sands of syria and pal palestine a 1 matter the importance of ya has been urged in the literaty literary y journal more than owe M davide the Egypt berer said there was Tio nothing thinK interesting in the literary lit hi hist klu and d than such discoveries i he be considered a perfect mine hf wealth and declared the dis as above described ux the present century an DR DB ED ISAACSON FORK foric october |
