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ii. He left Ur of the Chaldees in the reign of Sin- 



mnballit. 



iii. He began his nomadic life about the time of the 



accession of Khammiirabi : and the birth of Isaac 

 and most of the remaining events of his life took 

 place during the time of that monarch. 



iv. If Khamniurabi reigned liftv-five years, as one of the - 



tablets affirms, Sarah must have died about the same 

 time as he. 



V. Abraham in any case must have died in the reign of 

 Abeshu. 



vi. Isaac must have died just at the time when the great 



Hittite invasion occasioned the fall of that Dynasty. 



vii. Jacob went down into Egypt ten years later and 



therefore in the time of Gandash, the founder of the 

 Kassite Dynasty, and in the time of the first Shepherd 

 Dynasty of Egypt. 



Eg^-ptology bears witness to the fidelity of the record of life 

 in Egypt in the time of Joseph, while Professor Hull and his 

 colleagues have proved by going over most of the route the 

 accuracy of the account of the journey of the Israelites from 

 Egypt, and the Tel-el- Amama tablets have testified to the 

 anarchic state of the land of Canaan facilitating the Israelitish 

 invasion, which followed not long after. Time would fail me to tell 

 completely of the evidence wliich Archaeology has furnished to 

 modern Biblical scholarship, all bidding it rectif}' the premature 

 theories which were formed a creneration a.2,0 concernincr the 

 supposed mythical character of the liistorical records of the Old 

 Testament. 



III. 



The message of Archaeology in the next place calls for the 

 correction of the results arrived at by a misapphcation of 

 evolutionary theories to the BibKcal records. It is necessaiy to 

 remember that the Old Testament, Like the New, professes to 

 be an historical record. It is diflicult, therefore, to see how an 

 evolutionary process can have any place in such a composition. 

 If there be any such process in the case it must have occurred in 

 the events and not in the record. If Lord Macaulay's pen had 

 given us the result of an evolutionary process we might have 

 had a brilliant romance, but we certainly should not have had a 

 History of England. Hence for Biblical scholarship to foUow 

 the lead of an evolutionary theor}' in the study and interpretation 



