The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-22
HISTORY IN GENESIS
 TRUE, TABLET SHOWS.
Biblical Controversy Over One of Abrahani's Wars Now
 Relieved Ended.

New Haven. Conn, May 21-Arch- aeologistE all over the world will be interested in an announcenent made here today that a Baby1onian votive offering cone just deciphered at Yale practically settles a controversy that has waged for years among Biblical scholars. Some years ago it was as- serted that the nAr1es of the four kings mention ed in the ourteenth chapter of Genesis, who invaded Pal estine in the days of Abraham. were nologicaI inventions of inagin arv characters 2 It was held that the entire hist orfcaI background for the patriarchaI stories was different roTn that given in Genesis. By the aid Of che pick and shovel and the work Of the decipherer these assertfons, which had been made with the ut most assurance, are found to be val ueless according to the Tale author tiles.
 Several inscr iptions of Arioch fFsri- Aku9 have been published. and several Of his brother. Rim Sin Cor Rim Aku}., Formerly these individuals were re-. garded as identical And, although Thureau- Dagin of the Louvre made persous, a number of scholars still maintain according to the Yale au- thoritfes, that they are the same. This dynastic tablet recently obtained for the Y ale Babylonian collection. how ever, fully determines the qlfRstion, in that it shows that the last two kings of Larsa were Eri-Aku and R i'm Sin or AIxu-
 These two rulers were sons Of Ku- dur bug. the Elamite, who was also suzerain of Palestine and Syria. Chedorlaomer mentioned in the four teenth chapter of Genesis, was probab- Iy another son, in the opinion of the Y'a1e authorities. According to Gen. esis. Arfoch of Larsa and Nrnraphei of Shinar were Chedorlaonerss allies in the invasion. Since the reign of Rim -Aku follower that of Eri-Alx lxu. it seems to those who have studied the subjects here that Amraphel or Harnrnu rapi, also written Arnrnura- pi, must have been very young when. the Invasion took place.
 The ale arcl1aeologists point out that the knowledge that 4Arioch was the son Of EIamite king who claim ed to be suzerain of Palestine and Syria, is remarkable conhrma ton of a detail in this Old Testament narrative in that it furnishes req son why Arioch of Ellasar < Isarsa3, who was a son of an Elamite king, was allied with E1am. Moreover, it is kn ow n hat A m rapheI of shinar was su bservient to Elarn until he ov- erthrew it's power in his thirty first year.
 The new inscript of Arioch in the Yale Babylonian collection is votive offering in the form of a conicaI brick, dedicated to his goddess In nina, or 1shtad The Yale inscrip- ton is written in Sum erania1a the; non-Seniitic language Of the early pe- riod. and being deeiphered. reads as
 issEo 4npina Cor Ishta n the exalted lady of splendol prfestess Of hosts, the eldest daughter of the god Sin his lady TIru- Ak u, the favorite Prince Of Nippur. the ad dorner of the city IIr. the Eoverseer of the cities Girsu and Shirpurla. who is revered in the teInple) Ebabbar; king of Larsa king Of Sumer and Accad; the beloved lord of the harvest Cor hunt who full fills the commands; who built anew the temples of he gods; who had made a colossal copper statue of her kingship; who restores its greatness to Der overtli1med city; who truly re- built her wall; who truly caused to be Inhabited greatly her widespread land. exalted of hearts,
 The warrior who turns them back am T; to whom wide understanding for the conduct of the city''s work Ea has given: for the sake of Irrlir1a, the naer ciful lady, her house of splen- dor, the awe inspiring dwelling of her