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death of Saul and his sons, the Phil istines "triumphed over the dead” in brutal fashion, and after publishing the King’s downfall "in the house of their idols and among the people” they put the King’s armour in the Temple of Ashtaroth and fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan. The foundations of this temple have now been laid bare, with details which cast a lurid light upon the events associ ated with the downfall of the King of Israel, who suffered swift Judgment when he trespassed against the Lord and asked counsel of a familiar spirit. The discoveries emphasize the testi mony which is all the time being borne by archaeology to the historical ac curacy of the H o l y Scriptures. Whether from Egypt, from Babylonia, or from Palestine, it is ever the same story: statements with which we have been familiar from youth are strik ingly confirmed by stones and walls that have been covered by the debris of many generations.— The Christian.
Nordau were silent. There was no one there to depict the Jewish sorrows and sufferings in exile today, eleven years after the outbreak of the War that was to make the world safe for democracy and peace- There was no one there with the genius of a Herzl, or a Nor dau, or a Zangwlll to hurl into the Çace of civilization the shocking crimes still committed against the Jews.” — S. S. Times. KING SAUL AND BETHSHAN Hardly a week passes but there is given to the world the fruit of excava tions in the lands of the Bible. Among announcements made a few days ago there stands out one of particular im portance by reason of its bearing upon the cult of the Philistines in the Holy Land in the %econd millennium before Christ. The discoveries brought to light in connection with the expedi tion of the University Museum, Phila delphia, at Beisan, the Biblical Beth- shan, at the eastern end of the Valley of Jezreel, include representations of the goddess Ashtaroth, with remains of a temple erected to that “ abomina tion” by the Egyptians of the nine teenth dynasty. Some of the remains go back to a still earlier period, but special interest attaches to the objects described because of their relation to l8raelltish history at the time of the defeat of King Saul in Mount Gllboa. From the Old Testament we learn (1 Sam. 31; 1 Chron. 10) that after the
History is being made with startling rapidity in the long dormant land of the Chosen Race. Here we find the proph esied re-gathering assuming large proportions, and the seed of Abraham a r e becoming ascendant in the land of the Patriarchs. Maywefindtablets of the STUPENDOUS discoveries are opening up in the Holy Land since the. World War expelled the Turk and a Christian nation was given control. Professor Melvin Grove Kyle, Arch eological editor of The Sunday School Times, sails this month for an expedition to Kirjath- Sepher, a city between Hebron and Beersheba which flourished when Joshua led the Chil dren of Israel into Canaan. Dr. Kyle has had his eye on that city for more than thirty years,
Pentateuch? for it is not impossible that actual tablets of the Pentateuch may be found there. The town has been undisturbed since Neb uchadnezzar destroyed it 2500 years ago. Remembering that the critics say that Deuter onomy was not written until Josiah’s time, eight or nine centuries later than Moses, it would be a bombshell in the camp of the Higher Criticism if any portions of the Penta teuch, dating fromMoses’ own daywere found.
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