Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-07
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rg@ HE great King Nebuchadnezzar r.
known to students OF the Bible as the
Habylonian monarch who subjected
King Jehoaki.n OF Judah for three years. and
when he rebelled put his son Jeho!achin in
his place, as appears from the twenty.foIrth
chapter Of II. Kings. It was Nebuchadnez.
gar who. upon the rehelicn OF the King he
had placed on the throne OF Judah. came
down with his great hosts and plundercl
Jerusalem. carrying away to Babylon, not
only the treasures Of the temple, but 1900
war!ioya al prisoners OF WIZ. ZOO artisans
and smiths and 1000 OF the beat citizens OF
Jerusalem.
Nebacnsdneszar's veracity has been uudor
question by psychologists because he claimed
descent from On ancestor named Naranl Sin,
who wes Q. very great conlueror OF legend.
bot who hos been supposed 10 be mythical.
The archaeologista laughed et old Nabuch0d
neSzarR claims as sDr!n2ing out CT vanity.
Particularly did they scot at an inscription
on clay cylinder, recently found in tho
walls OF tho tempie OF Marad to the eouth
OF the city OF Babylon. This. upon docipher-
ment wa5 asceEtained to be An inscription
made by this sRme NebUcha dneZ3ar and
placed in the wei Sor safe-keepins. II is an
account OF the restoration OF the temple OF
Marad by Observation-Disclosures, the cylinder be-
ing like the documents which 1t is our
custom TO place IN the cornerstone Of a
building, that IN future generations 1t may
be known how and why and by whom the
building wes put up
According to this cylinder: "AS that time
In the temple OF LuGalMaradda, my lord, n
Mara6, whose foundation no former King he'd
seen since ancient days, I sought and found
the ancient foundation stone and upon the
base OF Narern S;n my ancient ancestor
fixed It's foundation. l wrote On iuBcriDtio
and my name. and placed It therein"
Another dream Of Nebuchadnezzar, eaid
the Psychologists. Imagine then ineir con.
sternation when some wandering Arabo
offered to one OF the excava!ins parties Mt
Babylon tho very stone OF Naram Sin TO
which Nebuchatneazar referred IN hip tablet!
They had found 1t years before he'd kept It
as fetch, but gresd overcoming super
stition, decided 20 turn it into dollars Tho
finding OF this stone js the orc missing Ink
In the chain Of evidence for the hlstoricity
OF Naram Sin, long considered. az has been
said mythical monarch OF prehistoric
Babyionfan tinlcU. portrait Of this
monarch WAS found years ago. but that, too,
was considered fancy picture" going back
TO no real human original. The chief OBJ
lection to the suggestion that tdere ever had
been renI king OF this name was the very
ancient date ascrlbed to him. How was 1t
possible for him 10 have lived as fer back az
$3.50 p. c., which WAS the date assigned 10
MIN, when this was the date OF the creation
OF the earth, according to the received Bib.
Heal chronology?
But ideas have been altered greatly within
the last twenty-five years az to the correct
ness OF the generally accepted length OF tilue
that mas passed since tho world came lnte,
being. 1t has been proved by excavations in
both RaDyIonis and Egypt that there were
kings and high stata OF civilization as for
back as ten thousand years ago, 80 the re-