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Identifier: babelbibl00deli
Title: Babel and Bible;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Delitzsch, Friedrich, 1850-1922 McCormack, Joseph, 1865- [from old catalog] tr Carruth, William Herbert, 1859-1924, [from old catalog] tr Robinson, Lydia Gillingham, b. 1875, tr
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Chicago, The Open court publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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on, exclaims with similar ethical indignation, that we1 i must needs search through the most vulgar corners ofFurther Asia in order to find its analogues, I cannot,indeed, boast of equal knowledge of local details, but I would like to remind him ofthe reasons why our schoolauthorities so urgently de-manded extracts from the OldTestament, and to warn himagainst throwing stones, lestall too speedily his own glass-house come crashing about hisears. However, these skirmishes,provoked by my opponents,into the realm of the morallevel of the two nations in-volved, seem to me of infinitelyless importance than a final ob-servation in connection withthe proclamation of the eth-ical monotheism of Israel or of the spirit of prophet-ism as a genuine revelation of the living God,which in my opinion has not yet received fitting atten-tion. Five times a day and even more frequently the ortho-dox Moslem prays the Paternoster of Islam, the first Suraof the Koran, which closes with the words: Lead us, O
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Fig. 81. Eve and Her Children.(A marble statue by Adolf Briitt.) BABEL AND BIBLE. Ill Allah, the right way, the way of those whom thou hastfavored, who are not smitten by thy wrath [like the Jews]and who are not in error [like the Christians].n TheMoslem alone is the one favored by Allah, he alone is theone chosen by God to adore and worship the true God.All other men and races are kafirun, heretics, whom Godhas not predestined to eternal salvation. Just such andnot otherwise, deeply rooted in the nature of the Semite,does the Yahvism of Israel show itself to be, in the pre-exilic as well as in the post-exilic period. Yahveh is theonly true (or highest) God, but at the same time he isthe God of Israel solely and exclusively, Israel is hischosen people and his inheritance; all other nations areGojim or heathen, given over by Yahveh himself to god-lessness and idolatry. This is a doctrine absolutely ir-reconcilable with our nobler conception of God, but which,nevertheless, is uttered in
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