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Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ylonian Semitic tongue,and appears as the name for temple, not only in Baby-lonia, but as far westward as Palestine. We have seenthat their language remained the sacred church lan-guage in Babylonia and Assyria down almost, if notquite, to the beginning of our era; that their old psalmswere sung in the temples and at the sacrifices in theold Sumerian tongue, which had long become notunderstandable by the people. The same is true ofmagic. The names of demons, and technical termswhich we find in sorceries and incantations, go backto the Sumerian, just as in the case of the word tem-ple. So we find, both in the Hebrew Bible and in laterJewish incantations, names and terms of Sumerianmagic. Sometime about, or a little before 3000 B. C, we findSemitic peoples pushing down into Babylonia and bythe end of the next millennium, somewhat before 2000B. C, we find that they have become the dominatingpeople. The civilization which we call Babylonian,and the people which we call Babylonian, and the
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