Sayce was a student of the Near East during ancient times, and his biography is a comprehensive look at the life and times of Isaiah: Chapter I. The Life of Isaiah Chapter II. Egypt in the Age of Isaiah Chapter III. Assyria Chapter IV. Syria and Israel Chapter V. Political Parties in Judah Appendix: I. Translations from the fragments of Tiglath-Pileser's Annals II. Translations from the Inscriptions of Sargon III. Translation of Sennacherib's account of his Campaign against Judah In the following pages an attempt has been ...
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Sayce was a student of the Near East during ancient times, and his biography is a comprehensive look at the life and times of Isaiah: Chapter I. The Life of Isaiah Chapter II. Egypt in the Age of Isaiah Chapter III. Assyria Chapter IV. Syria and Israel Chapter V. Political Parties in Judah Appendix: I. Translations from the fragments of Tiglath-Pileser's Annals II. Translations from the Inscriptions of Sargon III. Translation of Sennacherib's account of his Campaign against Judah In the following pages an attempt has been made to bring before the modern reader a picture of the external and internal politics of the Jewish kingdom in the age of Isaiah, one of the most important epochs and turning-points in the religious history and training of the Chosen Race. The materials for drawing such a picture are derived partly from the Old Testament, partly from the monuments of Egypt and Assyria, which in these our days have thrown so vivid and unexpected a light upon the earlier history of the Bible. Without them, indeed, the present book could never have been written. It is with their assistance that the pages of the sacred record have been supplemented and illustrated, and the course of events which seemed such a puzzle to the scholars of a former generation has been traced in its broad outlines. The contemporaries of Isaiah have ceased to be mere names to us, and have become living men of flesh and blood; we can not only read the very words of Tiglath Pileser, of Sargon, and of Sennacherib, but even handle the very documents which they caused to be inscribed. We can sit at the councils of the Assyrian kings and follow the reasons which brought them into contact with the rulers of Judah. A world which had seemed hopelessly past and dead has in the good providence of God been suddenly quickened into life.
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