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573. al-Maḳḳarî, Analectes de l’historie et de la littérature des Arabes d’Espagne, II. 69. The awâʾil are there called uṣûl al-ashyâ.
574. A general view of this literature can now be obtained from Ibn al-Nedîm’s Fihrist.
575. The name Yissâ-sekhâr (Issachar) must also fall under our consideration here, if we treat it as a Solar name (Day-labourer). See supra, p. 177.
576. See Duncker, Geschichte des Alterthums, 1874, I. 206, 266.
577. Can the Semitic ôhel ‘Tent of the Nomads’ be concealed in the word Αλήτης?
578. Egypt’s Place in Universal History, IV. 223.
579. Besides German scholars, Dutch orientalists and historians of religion especially have written very ably on the passage in Amos; the latest of whom, Tiele, in his Vergelijkende Geschiedenis, pp. 539 et seq., mentions in a note the most prominent Dutch labours on the subject.
580. No weight must be attached to the word malkekhem ‘your king,’ in which many have tried to find a datum for the high antiquity of the worship of Moloch by the Hebrews; for the suffix shows that the word cannot be taken as Môlekh, the name of a god. And the worship of that God appears everywhere as one borrowed from the Canaanites.
581. E.g. in the following fragment of a poem: ‘We lived in Chaffân in company with a people, may God give them rain by the constellation of the Fishes (saḳâhum Allâh min al-nauʾ nauʾ al-simâkeyn), then may a constellation give them abundant water (farawwâhum nauʾ), [a constellation] whose shining spreads light abroad’ (in Freytag, Darstellung der arabischen Verskunst, p. 253).
582. See Lane in the Zeitschr. d. D. M. G., 1849, III. 97. Krehl, Vorislamische Religion der Araber, p. 9.
583. Yâḳût, IV. 85. 19. Tâj al-ʿârûs, II. 209.
584. Saʿadia, who translates Job XXXVIII. 28, eglê ṭâl ‘store-houses of dew,’ by the Arabic anwâʾ ‘stars,’ Gesenius, Thesaurus, p. 21.
585. See Num. XIV. 14, where before the two pillars are mentioned it is only said that the cloud stood over them.
586. For Hebraists I note that I take the בְּ be in beʿammûd ʿânân as Beth essentiae.
587. Ḥayât al-ḥaywân, II. 52.
588. Bastian, Geographische und ethnographische Bilder, p. 169, and some passages in books of African travel quoted by Waitz, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, II. 169.
589. Ricerche per lo studio dell’ antichità assira, Turin 1872, p. 467.
590. Tiele, Vergelijkende Geschiedenis, p. 301, however, calls this last epithet ‘much too general to draw any conclusion from.’
591. Lazarus Geiger, Ursprung und Entwickelung der menschlichen Sprach und Vernunft, I. 346.
592. In Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheilungen, 1874, XX. 330, pt. 9.
593. K. Andree, Forschungsreisen etc., II. 362.
594. The Academy, 1874, p. 548, col. 2.
595. See Excursus D.
596. Accordingly this appellation belongs to the same category as those which are noticed above, p. 175. In genealogical notes elsewhere also the Serpent occurs as ancestor; I need only mention the case which stands nearest to our subject in prehistoric Arabia—that of al-Afʿa b. al-Afʿa, ‘the Viper,’ head of a branch of the people of Jurhum, Ibn ʿAbdûn, p. 71 et seq.
597. On the solar significance of the Bull-worship see Kuenen, Religion of Israel, I. 236 et seq.
598. I believe the historical narrative in Ex. XXXII. 26–29 is to be taken in this sense. It is solar worship that is forcing its way into the strictly nomadic religion of the Hebrews, and the Levites are guardians of the nomadic religion.
599. See Bastian in the Zeitschr. für Völkerpsychologie, 1868, V. 153.
600. Ebers, Aegypten und die Bücher Moses, I. 245 et seq.
601. On the adoration of the night-sky a passage of the Midrâsh should be consulted (Mechiltâ, ed. Friedmann, fol. 68 a), in which the possibility of a demûth chôshekh ‘an idol of Darkness,’ is assumed.
602. Most recently by Ewald, Die Lehre der Bibel von Gott, I. 234 et seq. On the purpose and importance of the interpretation of winds and clouds among the Babylonians, see Lenormant, La divination et la science des présages chez les Chaldéens, Paris 1875, pp. 64–68.
603. De Izraelieten te Mekka, Haarlem 1864, p. 29.
604. See my remark in the Zeitschr. d. D. M. G., 1874, XXVIII. 309.
605. Palgrave gives an excellent picture of this state, in his Central and Eastern Arabia, I. 34: ‘The Bedouin does not fight for his home, he has none; nor for his country, that is anywhere; nor for his honour, he never heard of it; nor for his religion, he owns and cares for none. His only object in war is ... the desire to get such a one’s horse or camel into his own possession, etc.’
606. Josephus, Contra Apionem, I. 14.
607. See Duncker, Geschichte des Alterthums, 1874, I. 253.
608. In Ezek. XXVII. 17, the wares, the export of which made the Hebrews dependent on the Phenicians, are enumerated in detail.
609. Die Vorurtheile über das alte und neue Morgenland, in Abhandl. der königl. Gesellsch. der Wissensch., Gottingen 1872, XVII. 98.
610. So e.g. Jas. Fergusson, Rude Stone Monuments, p. 38; Mommsen, History of Rome, 1868, II. 18 et seq.
611. Lenormant, Essai sur la propagation de l’Alphabet phénicien dans l’ancien monde, ed. 2, Paris 1875, I. p. 25.
612. W.D. Whitney, Language and the Study of Language, London 1867, p. 169; cf. F. von Hellwald, Culturgeschichte, p. 154.