Voices in Stone

These [Biblical] indications [of Hittites] could not have failed to arouse the interest if antiquarians had some monument, find, or other testimony of antiquity proved the existence of this lost people; but in the eyes of 19th century scholars the Bible was always considered an unreliable source.

When we consider the activities of the investigators, the brilliant achievements of the archeologists and philologists of this period, this prejudice today seems strange and unjustified. The only valid explanation in retrospect seems to lie in the duality of the heritage of The Age of Enlightenment: timeless search for knowledge and truth, allied to an uncritical contempt for everything which had for so long been considered the sole refuge of this truth.

—Ernest Doblhofer, Voices in Stone - The Decipherment of Ancient Scripts and Writings, Viking Press, 1961.
Posted by Tim at 1/11/2009 07:00:00 AM
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  1. Tim2/10/2010 09:21:00 PM

    This book was originally published in Venice and later translated to English. The author was apparently not a Christian. His work is very detailed and scientifically written.

    This was stated in the context of Hittite cuneiform and hieroglyphs, which were rediscovered after millennia of relegation to the Bible.

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