Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — Ask Orientalist to Explain. [ARTICLE]

Ask Orientalist to Explain.

, The American Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, at its recent meeting in Philadelphia, passed a resolution calling upon Prof. Hermann V. Hilprecht, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, to make a public reply to tbs charges laid against him of faking in connection with some ancient tablets which'he claimed to have dug up at Nippur. It is charged that these tablets, which are now in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, instead of having been dug up by the professor, had been bought by him in various cities of the Orient and that most of them had never Veen near Nippur. It is also declared that the tablets were in the bands of dealers some years prior to Dr. Ruprecht's alleged discoveries.