The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-27

American Philosophical Society closed
yesterday one of its most successful
general meetings.
The final papers were extremely in
terestlng. especially the argument OF
Professor Paul Haupt, OF Johns Hop
kins University, to the effect that Jesus
was, of Aryan. not Semitic. race. Pro-
fessor Haupt said:
"Thc founders Of Christianity were
Galileans. Our Savlour's first disciples.
Ecter and his brother Andrew, as we'll
az the two sons Of lebedee, James and
John. were Galilean fishermen. The
tradition that Jesus was a descendant
or David and was born Mt Bethlehem Is
rot original. The census referred to at
the beginning of the second chapter of
the third gospel took place in the year
A. D.-that Is. at least eleven years
after the nativity There was no i'm
perial assessment until Judea had been
made an imperial province, nor would
the people have been assessed at theft.
ancestral homes. Moreover. Mary would
not have been required to accompany
Joseph.
CDnccAsion to jewish Hope.
sour Saviour Himself referred to tho
belief that the Messiah was to be a son
81 David as an opinion of the Pharisees.
The later tradition, which endeavors
to harmonic the life OF Jesus with the
alleged Messianic prophecies in the Old
Testament, is a concession to jewish
expectations or prejudices.
| Our Saviour Is generally supposed 70
| have been Hebrew by race. But In
the post-exilic Introduction to the poet
ic glorihcation Of the Ideal King In the
ninth ehapter Ct the book OF the
trict OF the nations. 4. e., of the Gentiles.
| In ]. Mace. v. IS, we read that mes
sengers from Galilee, with their
and his brethren, in the year 1854 B. c..
who reported in this wise: They OF
l Ptol en,as and q. Of Tyrus and sidon and
| bled together against us to consume
us. Then said Judas unto Simon. his
| brother: Choose thee out men and go
and deliver thy brethren that are in
1000. mon to go into Galtlee. where he
fought many battles with the brethren;
and those that were IN Galilee: that IS.
the capital Of Galiiee. northwest Of
Nazareth). with their wives and their
children. and all that they had, took
No Jews In Gnlilcc.
$50 the Jews. who lived In Galilee
among the heather at the time Of Ju:.
transferred to Jerusalem in 1874 B. 6.
Consequently there were no Jews In
Galilee after the year 164 B. G. But
in 1os B. G., simon's grandson, the eld-
est son and successor of the great
Maccabean conqueror. John Hyrcanus
Aristobulus. the first King Of the Jews.
! whose coronation IS glorifed in the
forced the inhabitants to accept cir
cumcision and the Mosaic law
Therefore. they were not circum--
cised before the conquest. Since that
y shem rae and the ses Of
Galileans betrayed their non-Hebraic
read that the bystanders said to Pc
ter. Surely thou also art one OF them.
for thv speech betrayeth thee
by Aristobulus were called Iturians. a
but which undoubtedly means Assy-
rians,, because they were descendants
/ founder of the Assyrian Empire, Tig-
lath-Pileser III., and the: conqueror Of
samaria. sargon H. had sent to Call
lee, after the inhabitants had been
deported to Assyrla In 73S B. c.
! Identity OF Klamath.
1--WE read In II. Kings. xv... 20: In
the days. of Pekah. King, Of Israel.
came Tiglath- King ct A Ass sl 4;
and took lion ana Abebeihmaehna
Gilead and Galilee all the land OF
Naphtal!, and carried them captive to
Assyria.,' Now, It is generally sup
quest OF Galilee occurs in 'Tiglath-Pi-
leser's cuneiform Inscriptions. But
this is due to the fact na,, that no ,. 1 ,,
the land Of Klamath, both in the Bible
and in the cuneiform Inscriptions.
"The name is used in the Old Testa-
ment, but it never occurred to any
noted the ancient capital Of Galilee, at
the famous hot SPRING., half an hour to
the south of Tiberias, pm the western
shore Of the Sea OF Galtlee.
the eighth century B. G.. Seppharis:
the modern Saffuniye, northwest of
Nazareth was the capital Of Galilee.
D. When the foundation Of the new
city was laid an old cemetery was dug
up The Jews. therefore, considered
Tiberias as ulclean. and could not pc
destruction of Jerusalem. 70 a. D.. IT,
berias became the chief centre Of Jew
;ish learning. The old cemetery. which
was dug UP in ss A. d. wa Isl nc,snt
capital OF Galllee. The entrance to
Klamath is reneatedly. mentioned as
part Of the northern boundary Of Pal-
Magdalah the birthplace OF Mary Mag
sdalene three miles northwest OF Iloe-
rias.
Hebrew Kings OF Klamath.
"The universal opinion has been that
Klamath Is the royal city of the Hit
titles, on the Orontes, in Northern Syria,
but the boundary of Israel never
reached so far north, and the names OF
the kings Of Klamath mentioned In the
cuneiform texts are Hebrew. The king
Of Klamath who sent his son to salute
David was a Galilean. Solomon's store
cities, which lie built in Klamath, were
situated near the. Sea OF Galilee. The
territory OF Klamath, which Jeroboam