The professor dealt just as honestly with the
inscriptions which show sundry statements in the book of Daniel to
be unhistorical; candidly making admissions which but a short time
before would have filled orthodoxy with horror.
A few years later came another testimony even more striking. Early
in the last decade of the nineteenth century it was noised abroad
that the Rev. Professor Sayce, of Oxford, the most eminent
Assyriologist and Egyptologist of Great Britain, was about to
publish a work in which what is known as the "higher criticism" was
to be vigorously and probably destructively dealt with in the light
afforded by recent research among the monuments of Assyria and
Egypt. The book was looked for with eager expectation by the
supporters of the traditional view of Scripture; but, when it
appeared, the exultation of the traditionalists was speedily
changed to dismay. For Prof. Sayce, while showing some severity
toward sundry minor assumptions and assertions of biblical critics,
confirmed all their more important conclusions which properly fell
within his province.
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