Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume XL, Number 48, 28 Nowemapa 1902 — ABRAHAM NO MYTH. [ARTICLE]

ABRAHAM NO MYTH.

To Pcmonsb*te K, Pnl HīipmM Show» a Uttk Camco.

A Uttle eameo tablet was th? ceatral poict ia Dr. HiJprecht's \h\ri lecture on the UiiiTersity Bahr:oaiAo iloii? io the Epiphany Eaptist Chttrcb. A t>botograph af thls tahle. 1.600 ytars old. vras throvn oa Us« sere<?a f xvA th?n the gT«it &rcli2£oro&isi pro-cet-deJ to deiaonstrale iiom it tli*t Abrabazn, the father oC tl» Christlaa. Jew and Mohammed2n faiths. waa tiot a myth. but a retlitT, &s the Blhle teaches, The tab!et was iMcrib«d oa both sides and was found in the great temple of 6aalrat Klppur. The writiog on one dated baek to 2650 B« C. Th?a eame some great caiamity and the !tttle tablet was carried by its flnder to the city of Saxa» and about 1300 B. C. th6 King of Babyloa wrote this tnscrlptioa oo the haek of it, j»resenting lt to the chief goddess of Nippiir for the preservatlon of hls life. About a thousand years later. as ghown bjr the raw cuttings» a Parthian jeweler, searching for material, fouad U and was going to cut it into &eads for a neeklaee when (as centuries before) \ another caiamty fell upon Babylon. and; at last, 3000 years lafcer, lbe Peaasyl-1 : vania expeditlon found it and brought K home. "These tablets," said the lecturer, "tell their story simply and eoneluslvely that no scholar haa ever raised a doubt. Abraham, with his famHy. left the same region, departed from his fatherland. whieh the Elamites had turned into a desert and made a eamping ground for their armies. The Bib!e has told this story very briefly. The little stone from Nlppur. vrandering about for 5000 vears. is accepted as a matter of course. The men of whom it speaks have truly lived. but Abraham. of'the same time, his history supported bv millions over all the world, is just as historical. yet thousands treat him as a m>ih." t In describing the finding of thousands of tablets in the Temple of Baal the doctor stated that they were disccvered at various depths. In fact. the last temple or fortress. 300 B. C, to 290 A. D., was built on the ruins of the older temples, the earliest being of the reicn of Sargon, 3800 B. C— Philadelphia Press.