Identifier: religionofbabyl00roge (find matches)
Title: The religion of Babylonia and Assyria especially in its relations to Israel
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rogers, Robert William, 1864-
Subjects: Judaism
Publisher: New York, Eaton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ndproduced very little popular stir. But uponJanuary 13, 1902, Professor Friedrich Delitzsch,of the University of Berlin, eminent alike as ascholar, a teacher, and the founder of the great-est school of Assyriologists in the world, de-livered a lecture in the Sing Academie in Berlinin the presence of the German emperor. Thelecture was a brilliant exposition of the achieve-ments of Assyriology in casting a valuable lightupon the Old Testament. Much of what he saidawakened no controversy. It was, indeed, inlarge part known already, and the interest laychiefly in the skill of its exposition by a master,who had himself made contributions of enduringquality to the science. But as the lecture wenton Professor Delitzsch spoke of the supposedoccurrence of monotheism in Babylonia, andthere entered upon a most disputed realm. Thenhe said: But, further, through the kindness ofthe head of the department of Assyrian and i Expository Times, x, p. 42, Oct., 1898. THE GODS OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA 91
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Egyptian antiquities at the British Museum, Iam able to give a representation of three smallclay tablets (see below). What is to be seenon these tablets? I shall be asked. Fragile,broken clay upon which are scratched charactersscarcely legible! That is true, no doubt, yetthey arepreciousfor thisreason :they canbe datedwith cer-tainty,they be-long to the age of Hammurabi, one in particularto the reign of his father, Sin-muballit. But they are still more pre-cious for another reason:they contain three nameswhich, from the point ofview of the history of re-ligion, are of the mostfar-reaching importance:The names are Yahwe is God. Therefore Yahwe,the Existing, the Enduring one (we have reasonsfor saying that the name ma)^ mean this), theone devoid of all change, not like us men, whoto-morrow are but a thing of yesterday, but onewho, above the starry vault which shines with <* la- la. la- u- THREE TABLETS WITH THE NAME OF JAHWEH ve- iluilu ilu um- 92 RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA ev

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