Recmt Testimony of Archaeology to the Scriptures. 327 cal examination of the Hermetic writings from the standpoint of their corrected dates alone can determine; but it is certain i r t n h e g a a c s t h o t i h n f g e C i h p n r r i o t s h d t e u a i c r n ts d in fl t o h u f e e n t A h ce p e o a e s n t x l d a es m i . n in th at e io il n lum ca in n a n t o io t n b o u f t th b e e tea f c a h r V. IDENTIFICATIONS. aeol L og a y st t a o nd Sc m ri o p r t e ur g e en w er e al m ly u , s o t f co r n ec s e id n e t r te t s h t e im i o d n e y nti f fi r c o a m tio a n rc o h f places, peoples, and events of the Bible narrative. For many years archaeologists looked up helplessly at the pinholes in the pediment of the Parthenon, vainly speculating about what might have been the important announcement in bronze once fastened at those pinholes. At last an ingenious young American student carefully copied the pinholes, and f p r e o ri m al a R s o t m ud a y n o d f ec t r h ee e o co n l c l e oc f a a ti s o te n ne d d iv t in h e e d re. at S la o s , t is th ol e at w ed ho i l d e en im ti fication of peoples, places, and events in the Bible may not mean so much; however startling their character, they may be, after all, only pinholes in the mosaic of Bible history, but the collocation of these identifications, when many of them have been found, indicates at last the whole pattern of the mosaic. Now the progress of important identifications has of late been very rapid. It will suffice only to mention those which e w r e w h i a t v h e th al e re l a o d n y g s l t is u t di o e f d o f t o h r er t s he w ir it i h n i t n rin re s c ic en i t m y p e o a r r ta s. nce In to 1 g 8 et 7 h 4 , Clermont-Ganneau discovered one of the boundary stones of Gezer< 56 art Maca > , lis a t t er w h h a ic s h b p ee la n ce un n c o o w ve f ri o n r g s t i h x e y t e r a e r a s su M re r s . o R f . h A is . to S ry tew of t ti h t a es t L a e t v t it h i e ca ir l c c i a t p y i < t mal ; c i i n ty 1 ; 90 in 6, 1 W90 in 4 c -5 k , le S r c d h i u s m co a v c e k r e e r d e th x e plo H r i e t d Megiddo; in 1900-02, Sellin, Taannek; Jericho has now been accurately located by Sellin and the foundations of her walls laid bare; the Edomites, long denied existence in patriarchal times, have been given historical place in the time of Meremp-
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