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recovered the buried writings from
“ The tables of Larsarn had been de­ script ion was entire, it is probable we
Sippara,
and
built
many
cities
and
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posited
under the cornerstone of the should find some express allusion to ings,-which were supposed to/have
C hristian M essenger , temples.” Now, while, modeni critics
temple Ulbar, at -Agani, in ancient the tables of Larsarn, if’ in fact, the been deposited in the foundations of a
Devoted to the cause of Primitive Chrjati-
temple which had long before fallen to
< anity, and the diffusion of general ii have attached no weight whatever to times, by Sagaraktiyas, king of Baby­ two barrels are'not to be identified
a
mass
ruins; writings, in fact,
this- tradition of the sacred books as lon, and Naram-Sin, his son, my pre­ with them. It seems moreover, that
formation.
whose
originals
were believed to have
transmittedL to us by Berosus, it seepis decessors ; they had not seen the light the tables of Larsarn were deposited,
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of Babylon entertained a firm belief Babylon, who preceded me; made the fact that they are not mentioned from the epoch not less, than, ^000
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search for them, but he did not find in connection with , .Sagaraktiyas. years B. C. Entirely independent of
mediums on the Pacific Coast for making
this testimony, we trace the existence
which
had
been
preserved
during
the
the corner-stone of the temple Ulbar, There is, then, much uncertainty re­
their business known.
deluge, and transmitted to after ages. and thus he made this inscription: ‘ I specting these tables. But we cannot of documents at a period still more
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idus, were sufficient .jùdges whether Then wo have the history of the crea­
Notices in local columns IQ. cents per line for of thb excavations made at different" Three lines wanting, when the text genuine sacred tablets had been de-'
tion. and Tn the fall of man, exhibiting
each insertion.
| ¡»eriods to discover them. We cannot begins as follows :
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posited
in
the
foundations-of
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the same analogies in all ’the details,-
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“ Nehuchadnezzar, king of Babylon< * ple. Ulbar,
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in »Sippara, the “ City of between the Mtriaic a*nd- Babylonian
Mr. 1. G, Davidson Is our Advertlaing the language of M. F. Lenormant, as son of Nabu-pal-amr, my predecessor, j the Sacred Books.’
" But in point of ' ’ documents, the one appertaining to the
Agent In Portland-, f
follows : . ,
with the aid of his Army, searched for fact, the statement of Nabonidus is
Entered a/tho’^SW'Tlfiieo at Monmouth u
i history of the creation, the other to
“ This history of the tables contain- the corner-stone’di the temple Ulbar,
positive, that the “Tables of Ldfsam i that of the deluge, the analogies with
second class matter.
sng- the principles of all knowledge” and did not find it. And I, Nabuna-
had been deposited under the corner­ the Mosaic record of th§ samS-events
revealed by. the Theophanies of hid1, king of Babylon, restorer of Bit-
The Antiquity of Sacred Writings
stone of the temple UlbAr, at Agani, are' so numerous and bo exact; that it-
Anu (Gr. ûfntus), which had been SaggadKu and Bit Tida, in my victo­
in the Valley of the Uphrates.
in ancient timesfby Sargon (or Saga­ ’ is impossible to trace- the two accounts
buried by Xisuthrus at the time rious yeare, adoring Ishtar of Agani,
raktiyas), king.nf Babylon, and Na­ to different original sources,- Hence,
M O. D. MILLKB.
of the deluge, in order that they my mistress, I have caused a pit4!« be
ram-sin; hie son,” and this statement if we admit far one an antiquity of
The existence Of sacred writings ip might be transmitted to the' post-dilu­ excavated. _ The gods Shamas and was made after his search for the cor­
2000 years Before
2(HH)
before our era, we must
smaas we have Bin directing me, I have searched for
the country of the Euphrates, at a pe­ vian world, had been,
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ner-stone. Had there been any mis- 1 assign.the sanic antiquity to the other. _ /
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shown,
the
sdurce
of
tin?
.be
’
legend
quite
riod certainly anterior to Abraham’s
the corner-stone of the’ temple Ulbar.
•I Il-ih iucuillJClVtlbfe^uhder such circum- t 1
fof”tny 'own tatp^iness. Avith the-eeti-
would have discovered it, and so stat­ j stances, that the Mosaic record actual-
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is reasonably to be inferred from k e Thoth or Seth in the land of-Btriad, stancy worthy pf a king! have direct-
ed.
At this, early epoch,’ then, it is j ly originated only after the lapfte 6f /
to
which
the
Pseudo-Manetho
aftudes.
evidences afforded by the cuheifernk
my army in the search for this corner­ safe to assume that saCred writings
during existed in the valley of the Euphrates . centuries from this date. One ufltwo /
inscriptions. From the Hebrews with Josephus says that these pillars exist­ stone, where Nebu
[positions :has to bo assumed here:
ed
even
jn
his
time.;
and
here
we
be
­
three years (180 dayt t)"had opened a
the Babylonians, at different periods,
and according to all appearances, they ; either pne record was copied from
lieve
to
have
again
a
Babylonian
tra
­
a trench for the excavations. They
dating from the earliest epochs ; and
itself to a reaLfact, have explored to the right and to the had been handed- down from a miieh oilier, '-r h th La-1 b«--n derived oriVi-
from
analogies
existing dition attaching
11
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Carlier period, if not even from the nally and seperately. froui the
between the «acred traditions inherit-P* lie 1 18-revealed to us by the frag- left, before and behind; and I have an ted i 11 tvran ctlf ' ' ( .
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As regards the date of Sargon’ —
s I ruttiraste source Tn our opinion, for
der)
of
Nabunahid,
discovered
at
Mu-
corded in the sacred writings which
Then they sayy-' We hayn . searched reign, that is, the elder Sargon’s, much which, if we had the^pace, very sub-
I stantial reasons could' be given, the ' *
ghier,
the
ancient
Ur,
now
preserved
each had preserved independently of
for this
corner-stone, end
we have not difference of opinion exists among As-1
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the other, it is obvious that the ori­ in the British Museum. We learn found it. The tempest of waters has syriologists. fhe English are accus- Hebrew-speaking Semites had ¡»re­
gin of these sacred books,-as preserved frptn this, ip effect, that when Sagara-'- inundated everything, and has ruined toartid to place him in the IGth centu- served one account, ami the Assyro-
independently by__tlp>-two ¡»copies, ktyas, a king of the first historical all.”
| ry B. ^c., while the .French, including Babylonians another, both l aving
dynasty
of
the
Chaldeans,
who
was
must be assigned to nearly the same
There occurs now a long — fracture in M. M. Lenormant, Menant, and oth­ been derived from one and the same
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certainly
contemporaneous
witlj
the
antiquity. This is rendered all the
the text, in which, probably, the mon­ ers, with much more reason, as wc original source. However this may
be,
that
Abraham,
before
his
depart-
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kings
of
the
ancient
empire
in
Egypt,-
arch gaA the details -of a renewed believe, assign him to the period about
more probable from the fact that
- — Abraham, during his earlier sojourn in reconstructed the pyramidal temple of search, for when the text betorfies 2000 years u. c. They assign Sagara- j ure from Ur, on the lower Euphrates,
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the country of. Ur, on the loWer the goddess Ammis, called Ulbar, situ­ again partly legible, we read :
ktiyas to about the same epooh. Thus ( was familiar with documents whoso
ated
in
that
part
of.
Sippara
known
as
Euphrates, must have been familiar
“ The temple of Sin, and thia temple the existence of sacred writings in ' contents were subsequently known
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Agani;
he
made
certain
mysterious
of tho temple Ulbar, for the construc­ Babylonia, 2000 years before our era, | under the form they take in- the book
with the Chaldean Sacred Oracles;
of Genesis, seems fully
tablets-in
imitation
of
those-
carried
tion of this temple. I have found the seems to be quite well established.
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by
Xisuthrus
from
Larsan
(Mol
era,
¿>m
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ston
e
o
f
¿¿tèmpi
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Ulb
ar-lanJ
facts
with
which
.Assyriologist
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But-w^-have an important confir­ I
is
familiär.
That
papyri
were in use
Senk^reh),
his
native
city,
to
Sippara;
has been fully shown, it is by no
have read the name of Sagaraktiyas mation of the position ws have as­
y
at
this
early
period
is
sufficiently
evi­
and
buried
them
under
the
comer
means impossible that Abraham car­
at the bottom.”
sumed, in the late discovery of the
dent
from
the
investigation,
of
both
6tone
(fernin),
of
the
temple
Ulbar.
There then follows the memorial “ C'reâtion 1 ablets ” and the--’ Izdhui-
ried copies of these sacred books with
him, on his departure for the country These tables were probably thought inscription of Sagaraktiyas, Copied by “bar iSeries,” or- “ Deluge Tablets,” by Rev. A- H. Saÿcë” and Dri Tablot.
I the lamented Mr. George Smith. This That the Abrahamites, therefore, pos­
of his future inheritance, and that of to be copies of those that had been Nabonidus, after which he says
buried
at
the
time
of
the
deluge
;
and
have replaced in the foundations the author believes that the originals of sessed copies of the sacred writings
his descendents. It will be seen, at
thus
the
king,
himself
really
historic
­
Barrel of the East, the Barrel of the the “ Izdhubar Serieswere written before their departure fromUr» not­
least, from the foregoing hints, that
al,
thought
to
give
to
his
reconstructed
West, and the foundation stone in soon after the death of this hero, whom ât all improbable. The. book of ’Gene-
the question of the antiquity of sacred
edifice
a
more
august
consecration,
in
front,” etc. On ’ account of the frag­ he identifies with Nimrod, the founder si^is made up of three chief narratives.
Writings in the country of the Euphra­
realizing
a
fabulous
tradition.
In
Find. The history of ti£$
tfiç creatioij^nd
creation and
mentary condition of Nabonidus’ in­ of the Babylonian kingdom. As this npint.
tes, has a direct bearing upon the the­
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course
of
centuries
these
tables
of
the
fall,
accompanied
with
the ? àn-
p
scription, some mistakes have occurred account of the deluge formed part of
ories recently put forth by critics, as-
buripd
by
Sagaraktyas
had
become
todiluvian
genealogy.
Second.
The
in its rendering heretofore. It ts cer­ the sacred writings, we must assign
> signing—an extremely modem date,
comparatively speaking, for the origin themselves famous and legendary ; tain, for instance, that Naram-sin was the latter to 'a period pinch earlier, account of the deluge and pf the set-
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of the Books of Moses; and it is pro­ they had come to be regarded, proba- not the son of Saga-raktiyas, but of even, than that of 2000 B. C. At a tlemencs of the posterity of Noah, the
bly, as the originals of those of Lar- tàargon, tha ancierit, king ot Agane. later period, howèver, and i« his construction of the tower, etc? Third.-
posed in the present mticle to place «««
it.
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before the readers of this journal the san hidden for the first time by Xisu­ On the^other hand, it is certian that “ Chaldean Genesis ” Mr. Smith sub­ The history of Abraham and his de­
thrus.
Thus,
at
an
epoch
anterior
to
the name Saga-raktiyas occurs in con­ mits a chronological scheme, in which scendants, of the sojourn of the Isreal- ,
leading facts, derived mainly from the I
inscriptions, tending to establish the the 13th century before our era, the nection with the memoaial cylinder he assigns the origin of the “ Deluge ites in Egypt, till tfie time of Moses.
high antiquity of the sacred writings, king Kuri-galzu, who appertained to discovered and copied by Nabonidus- Tablets " to the epoch 200() B. G, as The subject matter included under the
as known to have been preserved by the fourth or fifth dynasty of Berosus But Saga-raktiyas is placed several the lowest date, and the “ Creation first and second heads must have been \
made excavations in the mass of the reigns after Kuri-galzu., even, by Mr.
the Babylonians.
Tablets ’ to the era between 1850 and familiar to Abraham, if from no other
In Berosus’ account of the deluge, or fifth dynasty of Berosus, made ex­ Smith ; hence it is necessary to con­ 2000 H C. But these dates appear to than from the Babylonian sacred writ •
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there are three distinct
allusions to 1 cavations in the mass of the pyramid clude that the tables of Larsarn were have been adopted As the lowest possi-. ings, whose existance in his time is
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ike existence of aacmi books, which, in search_of these tables, butwithout deposited in .the. f o u nda tions of the | ble, , rmt
sft of
of ConMderatmnTbr thé ordr" ■juaq^a. lustier of iaot,— The m att er in—
they are connected with later tra­ success. Similar labors were under­ temple Ulbar by Sargon^ the father of nary biblical chronology ; it is obvious eluded under the third head, must
ditions to be noticed, are reproduced taken by the kings of later periods, Naram-sin.
that, in the author's real qpinion, these have been familiar to Moses, if-the
It will have been noticed in the doctimenns ap|>ertained to periods family of Abraham had kept thfe least
here. It is stated that Cronus ap­ always for the same purpose, yet with
peared to Xisuthrus in a dream, warn­ no result It was only at the period extract from Mr. Lenormant that he some centuries earlier. It should be heeount of their Varied fortunes, and if
ed him of the coming deluge, and " He shortly before the reign of the Baby­ regards tiie tables of Larsain as pure stated in this connection that the his immediate posterity had done the
bade him bury in SippanC the City of lonian power that Nabunahid, after inventions, on the part of Sagaraktiyas French Assyriologists generally assign same ; and it is impossible that they
the Sun, the extant writings, first and protracted efforts, succeeded finally in being led to this conclusion, perhaps, dates for the early events and person­ should notjhave done so. Thus, Moses
last” Agrin, after Xisuthrus had discovering the tables buried by Sag­ 'Mun the fact that Nabonidus does not ages some five of six centuries prior had at his command, beyond any
state, so faf as the fragments of his to those fixed by the majority of the, doubts all. the materials that we find
been translated, his voice was heard araktiyas."
We give below a translation of the inscription enable us to judge, that he
by his companions, bidding them to
English school.
A . to-day embodied in the book of Gene­
He
*• Return to Babylon, and recover the inscription of'Nabonidua, so far as re­ actually found these tables.
It results, now, from these investi­ sis, "and this book, therqfore, undoubt­
writings buried at Sippara, and make lates to these tables, following the ver- merely copies the private inscription gations, that as early as the time of edly datas from the time of Moees.—
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them known among men.” Finally, sions by Lenormant, Oppert, and Me­ of Sagaraktiyas. But Nabonidus does Kuri-galzu, 1350 B. C. tjie Babylon­ TAe Oriental Journal.
k, it is stated that. they went their why nan t It will be seen to be very frag­ speak of the “ Barrel of the East and ian monarchs were found employing
°°nnt’ **»• minute. ; hsppina
?te Babylon, "and, having reached it mentary. Nabonidus proceeds thus : the Barrel of the West” If the ln- their armies searching for sacred Writ- h
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