Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments: A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible from Recent Discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor.
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1906. Ninth impression of second edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 160pp. Brown linen lettered in gilt on spine & upper board. B/w frontis. Index. The author, Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (1846 - 1933), was a pioneering British Assyriologist who held the chair of Professor of Assyriology at Oxford from 1891 to 1919. Amongst his many accomplishments he was one of the first to identify and translate the cuneiform texts astrological and astronomical texts, which he did in a book-length essay: "The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians" which he published in the "Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology " Vol. III, Part 1, 1874. Cloth of rear board and spine lightly faded, page edges darkened pages lightly toned, light bumps and chafing at upper spine, else a tight, clean VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #50930
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