 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1883 - 122 pages
...two are identical. But the reader shall judge for himself. Beda writes of Csedmon thus: "He sang of the creation of the world and the origin of the human race, and the whole history as found in Genesis, concerning the going forth of Israel out of Egypt, and their... | |
 | John Earle - Anglo-Saxon literature - 1884 - 284 pages
...have been quoted above. The poems which he subsequently wrote are thus described : — " He sang of the creation of the world and the origin of the human race, and the whole story of Genesis, of Israel's departure out of Egypt and entrance into the land of promise,... | |
 | Jacques Parmentier - English language - 1887 - 364 pages
...life in writing religious poetry. He paraphrased the historv of the Old and New Testament. He sang of the creation of the world and the origin of the human race, and the whole history as found in Genesis, concerning the going forth of Israel out of Egypt, and their... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1893 - 564 pages
...COSMOGONY AND RELIGION. lEROSUS begins his history by recounting the Chaldaean traditions regarding the creation of the world and the origin of the human race. The following is an account of the Chaldaean cosmogony: "In the beginning all was darkness and water,... | |
 | George Henry Bateson Wright - Bible - 1895 - 408 pages
...God himself, it is not possible, without very advanced scientific knowledge, to frame any account of the creation of the world and the origin of the human race. To scientific knowledge there is not the least pretension in the Bible ; and the former is impossible... | |
 | Amos Kidder Fiske - Bible - 1897 - 378 pages
...the fables of Babylon and Nineveh, and with the mythology of Phoenicia, and he began his story with the creation of the world and the origin of the human race, deriving his material from those foreign sources, but giving it the impress of his own potent genius.... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1897 - 448 pages
...COSMOGONY AND RELIGION. EROSUS begins his history by recounting the Chaldaean traditions regarding the creation of the world and the origin of the human race. The following is an account of the Chaldaean cosmogony : "In the beginning all was darkness and water,... | |
 | Edmund Dale - Anglo-Saxon literature - 1907 - 362 pages
...learn by hearing ; and by the very sweetness of his song he made learners of his teachers. He sang of the creation of the world, and the origin of the human race, and the whole story of Genesis ; of the exodus of Israel from Egypt, and their entrance into the Promised... | |
 | World history - 1914 - 580 pages
...RELIGION. Chaldaean BEROSUS begins his history by recounting the Chaldaean traditions mogony regarding the creation of the world and the origin of the human race. asRelated The following is an account of the Chaldaean cosmogony : " In the Berosus. beginning all... | |
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