Mythology among the Hebrews and Its Historical DevelopmentGoldziher, Ignác
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Mythology among the Hebrews and Its Historical Development
Goldziher, Ignác
Jewish mythology; Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D.
It should at the same time be noticed that in Arabic, in which, as in
Hebrew, men are usually called banû Adam, the expression banû Ḥawwâʾa
(sons of Eve) also occurs; _e.g._ in a verse of the Kumeyt (_Aġânî_,
XV. 124; wa-cheynu banî Ḥawwâʾa), in a poem of Abû-l-ʿAlâ al-Maʿarrî,
I. 96. 1, of al-Murtaḍî in the _Keshkùl_ of al-ʿÂmilî, p. 169.
Footnote 569:
_Ursprung der menschlichen Sprache und Vernunft_, II. 42.
Footnote 570:
See Excursus M.
Footnote 571:
_Die Kitâb al awâʾil der Araber_, Halle 1867; congratulatory article
on occasion of the meeting of the German Oriental Society at Halle.
Footnote 572:
I know this work (entitled Muḥâḍarat al-awâʾil wa-musâmarat
al-awâchir) from a manuscript of it in the public Viceregal Library at
Cairo. In the catalogue of the year 1289, p. 92 _antepenult_, it is
erroneously entered with the title Muchtaṣar al-awâʾil wal-awâchir.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 574:
A general view of this literature can now be obtained from Ibn
al-Nedîm’s _Fihrist_.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 576:
See Duncker, _Geschichte des Alterthums_, 1874, I. 206, 266.
Footnote 577:
Can the Semitic ôhel ‘Tent of the Nomads’ be concealed in the word
Αλήτης?
Footnote 578:
_Egypt’s Place in Universal History_, IV. 223.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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).
Footnote 582:
See Lane in the _Zeitschr. d. D. M. G._, 1849, III. 97. Krehl,
_Vorislamische Religion der Araber_, p. 9.
Footnote 583:
_Yâḳût_, IV. 85. 19. _Tâj al-ʿârûs_, II. 209.
Footnote 584:
Saʿadia, who translates Job XXXVIII. 28, eglê ṭâl ‘store-houses of
dew,’ by the Arabic anwâʾ ‘stars,’ Gesenius, _Thesaurus_, p. 21.
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