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Title
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The Development of Harvard University Since the Inauguration of President Eliot 1869–1929
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Creator
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David G. Lyon
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Description
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David G. Lyon, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard, states that among the ancient Semitic peoples of Western Asia (Arabs, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hebrews/Jews, Phoenicians; and in Africa, Ethiopians), the Babylonians and the Assyrians had “vanished long since.” He contrasts this with the modern scholarly recovery of their languages and literary treasures. Notably, Arameans are listed but not said to have vanished, underscoring a distinction Lyon draws between groups that disappeared as historical nations and those that did not.
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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The Development of Harvard University Since the Inauguration of President Eliot 1869–1929, Samuel Eliot Morison, 1930, p. 344.
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