The populations of the fatherland of Abraham : a short account of the populations which came into contact with the Jews, and used the Cuneiform system of writing / by G. Bertin.

  • George Bertin
Date:
1893
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Credit: The populations of the fatherland of Abraham : a short account of the populations which came into contact with the Jews, and used the Cuneiform system of writing / by G. Bertin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    country and his kindred (xxiv. 4). Even when constituted a nation, in spite of their long stay in Egypt, the Jews always had more leaning towards the Babylonians. After the destruc- tion of Jerusalem, Judaism flourished at Babylon; it was in the schools there that neo- Judaism was developed, and this gave to the nation the strength and vitality exhibited dur- ing the fanatical struggle of the Seleucidean Kings; for it was the Babylonian Talmud that was always considered as the standard, and more orthodox than that of Jerusalem. If we take all this into consideration, we can realise what strong influence must have been exercised over the Jews by the Babylonians and other nations using the cuneiform system of writing. Writing is the great channel of ideas; it is through the system of writing adopted all over Western Asia that Babylon maintained its influence even when its power was waning. By a curious coincidence, the cuneiform system of writing seems to have been used in all the countries visited by Abraham and his ances- tors, the survey of the population of those lands cannot, therefore, fail to throw great light on the manners, customs, and habits of the children of Abraham.
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