324 The Fundamentals. This is startling and far reaching in its consequences. Clay's work must be put to the test; and so it will be, before it can be finally accepted. It has, however, this initial advantage, that it is in accord with the apparent self-consciousness of the Scripture writers and, as we have seen, exactly in the direction ia which recent discoveries in Palestinian civilization point. IV. PALESTINE AND EGYPT. Again archaeology has of late furnished illumination of certain special questi01is of both Old and New Testament criticism. 1. "Light from Babylonia" by L. W. King< 51 > of the British Museum on the chronology of the first three dynasties h ha el m p ' s s t c o al d l e a te n r d m o in f e th th e e E d x a o te du o s f , a H n a d m , m in u d r e a e b d i , , h a a n s d i s n o tro o d f u A ce b d ra a t c o o r r y rec d t o iv w e n el t e o m t e h n e t i t n im to e t o h f e D ch a r v o i n d ol a o n g d y o e f xe a r l t l s s a ub f se a q r- u r e e n a t ch h i i n s g i o n l fl og u i e c n a c l e el u em po e n nt m is an v y ita c l r . itical questions in which the chron SACRIFICE IN EGYPT. 2. The entire absence from the offerings of old Egyptian religion of any of the great Pentateuchal ideas of sacrifice, substitution, atonement, dedication, fellowship, and, indeed, of a li l s m he o d st b e y ve r r e y ce e n s t se v n e t r ia y l e i x d h e a a u o s f tiv r e ea e l x s a a m cr in ifi a c t e io , n as of cl t e h a e rly off e e s r ta in b g scenes<� 2 >, makes for the element of revelation in the Mosaic system by delimiting the field of rationalistic speculation on the Egyptian side. Egypt gave nothing to that system, for she had nothing to give. THE FUTURE LIFE IN THE PENTATEUCH. tian 3. con T ce h p en tio t n he of gr th o e ssl o y th m er at w er o i r a l l d ist a i n c d ch o a f ra th c e te f r u o tu f re th l e ife E , g a y n p d the fact, every day becoming clearer, that the so-called and
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