Hezekiah and His Age (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hezekiah and His AgeBut now what of the later history, the period where the Bible story is paralleled and faced with records which the last few generations have seen un earthed from the repose of millenniums? How far has the credibility of the Bible story been strength ened or shaken by the discovery of the records yielded by the mounds which once were cities by the Tigris or Euphrates? Let it be remembered, before any answer is attempted, how absolutely and essenti ally different is the aim, the purpose, the intention, of the Bible story and of the cuneiform inscriptions. The former is the record of a tiny and isolated nation, and that record not mainly, or even primarily, annalistic, but a setting forth of the development of God's purpose as shewn in the history of Israel, as that purpose grew to a broader horizon. The Assy rian tablets, except when they are simply annalistic, mere lists of years receiving their designations from their eponyms, or a bare list of campaigns, 'year by.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.