# The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise

Author: Cumming, Charles Gordon, 1885-

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47864

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Assyrian+and+Hebrew+Hymns+of+Praise+Cumming&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Book of Psalms is no longer to be regarded by Old Testament scholars as an isolated phenomenon. Similar religious poetry is found not only in the narrative and prophetic portions of the Old Testament, in the Apocrypha, and the New Testament, but also in the literatures of Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, India, and Greece. Indeed, wherever religion really develops beyond the primitive stage, it expresses itself in poetry and we get something comparable to the Hebrew psalms.

## Chapters

- [Chapter XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part III has the call to praise in verse 12 and the reasons for praise](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part II of this hymn, lines 15-26, is made up of Enid’s summons to his](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part I, lines 1-14 is a hymn of praise addressed in the second person](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part II is the reply of the deity to the worshipper, announcing first in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part II concludes in a strophe of seven lines, each line setting forth a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assyrian-and-hebrew-hymns-of-praise-47864/chapters/10/index.md)