Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations, With a Critical Introduction. E-book. Formato PDF Robert Francis Harper   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

After a lapse of twenty years, in the spring of 1840, Austen Henry Layard visited the ruins of Nineveh as iden tified by Rich. In 1842 Layard returned to Mosul without having made any excavations. Here he met P. C. Botta, the French consul, who had been interested in this work by the Orientalist Mohl, at that time professor in Paris. Layard, being without the means necessary to carry'on the excavations, strongly urged Botta to direct his attention to the work. Botta himself was without means at this time, but in 1843 he was enabled to begin, and he continued until 1845, during which time he laid bare the city walls of Khorsabad and discovered many valuable inscriptions. In 1849 he published his Monuments of Nineveh, by order of the French Government, in which are to be found 220 pages of inscriptions.

Old Testament and Semitic Studies: In Memory of William Rainey Harper. E-book. Formato PDF Robert Francis Harper   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This collection of papers is an unusual tribute to a strong and unique personality. It is Offered by a fellowship of scholars most Of whom were the personal friends Of President Harper, and many Of whom had come under the almost magical in?uence Of his teach ing. All are impelled by the desire to honor a fellow-student who has deserved well of learning. All are saddened by the thought that his last contribution has been made to the Old Testament and Semitic studies which he loved so ardently. His public connection with them covered more than twenty-five years, and the circum stances Of it appealed to the imagination. He was the representa tive, and indeed the embodiment, Of these studies for a large circle Of men and women who were introduced to them, directly and indirectly, through him. Some thus came to an intimate knowledge Of them. More reached superficial, though Often enthusiastic, acquaintance. Still Others merely watched the phenomenon, with keen interest, from without. For all Of these he held the middle of the field. He did nothing for display, but everything for efficiency, and from this point of View his life was not only an achievement, it was an astonishing Spectacle.