The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

[1285] See p. 575.

[1286]Ib.

[1287] See p. 487.

[1288] Hagen, Cyrus-Texte, ib. and p. 248.

[1289] "The Folk-Song of Israel," The New World, ii. 35; also his article "Das Hebräische Klagelied," Zeitschrift für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, ii. 1-52.

[1290] In Egypt at present the tambourine is used to accompany the dirges (Lane, ib. p. 278).

[1291] Peter's Nippur, ii. 173, and elsewhere.

[1292]Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, ii. 414.

[1293] See above, p. 575.

[1294] Job, x. 21, 22.

[1295]I.e., the darkness is so dense that no light can remove it.

[1296] See the references in Schwally, Das Leben nach dem Tode nach den Vorstellungen des Alten Israels, pp. 59-68, and Jeremias' Vorstellungen, pp. 106-116.

[1297] Job, vii. 10.

[1298]Refâ'îm.

[1299] Chapter ix. 5-10.

[1300] Gen. xlii. 38.

[1301] Incidentally, a proof that the dead were not buried naked.

[1302]Das Leben nach dem Tode, etc, p. 67.

[1303] I Sam. ii. Recognized by the critics as an insertion. See Budde, Die Bücher Richter und Samuel, p. 197.

[1304] I Kings, xvii. 21, 22.

[1305] Chapter ii. 7.

[1306] Psalms, cxxxix. 8; a very late production.

[1307] Schürer, A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, vol. II. Division li. pp. 38, 39, 179-181.

[1308]E.g., the custom still in vogue among Orthodox Jews of placing the body wrapped in a shroud upon a board, instead of in a coffin.

[1309] Professor Haupt has recently shown (in a paper read before the American Oriental Society, April, 1897, and before the Eleventh International Congress of Orientalists, September, 1897) that such is the meaning of the phrase, Psalms, cxxxvii. 1, which is ordinarily translated 'rivers of Babylon.'

[1310] The Talmud of Babylonia, and not the Talmud of Palestine, became the authoritative work in the Jewish Church.