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Twelve lectures on the connection between science and revealed religion; delivered in Rome - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1842 Excerpt: ... LECTURE THE NINTH. ARCHEOLOGY. Introductory remarks.--Medals: Reconciliation of an apparent contradiction between Genesis and the Acts.--Frohlich's application of medals to the defence of the chronology of the Maccabees.--Alexander called the first king among the Greeks: Death of Antiochus Evergetes. Acknowledgments of his opponents; accordance of Eckhel. M. Tochon d'Annecy's objections.--Apamean medals; history of them; comparison with other monuments.--Inscriptions. Verbal illustrations of Scripture from them.--Gibbon and Dodwell's assertions regarding the small number of Christian martyrs, and Burnet's objections, answered by Visconti, from inscriptions.--Monuments. Use of wine in Egypt denied, and the Scripture consequently assailed.--Confutation of this cavil from Egyptian monuments.--Costaz, Jomard, Champollion, and Rosellini--Curious vase found in the Roman Campagna, referable to the deluge.--Conquest of Juda by Shishak, represented at Karnak.--Concluding remarks. Our last enquiries have gradually led us amongst the monuments of antiquity; and, from the examination of such great chronological points as touched on the authenticity of sacred history, we found ourselves almost imperceptibly brought to the discussion of individual monuments of kings, and of their people. It might, therefore, be said, that the study on which we have now to enter, has been already introduced; or, at least, that the connexion between what has been said, and what will follow, is so close and natural, as hardly to warrant a separation into two distinct pursuits. But, in all the histories hitherto examined, we have had one specific object in view, the reconciliation of their early monuments with sacred chronology, and the process we have pursued has been consequently uniform a...
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