Archæology and the Bible

by George A. Barton

[546] From de Morgan’s Délégation en Perse, Vol. XIV, p. 60.

[547] From Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, V, 68, No. 1.

[548] From Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, VII, 157, f.

[549] From Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, VII, 162, f., and Clay, Light on the Old Testament from Babel, 374, f.

[550] See Expository Times. Vol. XXVI, 297-299 (April, 1915).

[551] Babylonian Texts from the Yale Collection, No. 39.

[552] From Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, V, 35.

[553] Herodotus, Book II, 161.

[554] Josephus professes to be quoting Manetho, and puts the incident in the time of Ramses. Perhaps Aristeas in his letter refers to this colony, when he speaks of Jewish soldiers. (See Kautzsch, Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen, II, 7.)

[555] The documents have been published by Sayce and Cowley, Aramaic Papyri Discovered at Assuan, London, 1906, and Sachau. Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus Elephantine, Leipzig, 1911. Those translated here are Nos. 1, 4, 6, and 11 of Sachau’s publication.