The early history of the Hebrews

Name: The early history of the Hebrews
Author: Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jews -- History -- To 953 B.C.

First pointed out by Baker Greene, _The Hebrew Migration from Egypt_,
  p. 170; Elim is the masculine, and Elath the feminine plural. Compare
  El-Paran, perhaps ‘El(im) of Paran,’ in Gen. xiv. 6, as well as Elah
  in Gen. xxxvi. 41.

Footnote 192:

  Exod. xvi. 1 compared with Numb. xxxiii. 11.

Footnote 193:

  The name is found in an inscription of Hadramaut (Osiander,
  _Inscriptions in the Himyaritic Character_, p. 29), where the god is
  called the son of Atthar or Istar instead of her brother, as in
  Babylonia, as well as in a Sabæan text from Sirwaḥ.

Footnote 194:

  Numb. xiii. 26. The sanctuary had originally been Amalekite (Gen. xiv.
  7).

Footnote 195:

  Unfortunately, no calculation of distance can be made from the
  statement that Elijah was ‘forty days and forty nights’ on his way
  from Jezreel to Horeb, since ‘forty’ merely denotes an unknown number.

Footnote 196:

  In the early days of the monarchy the armies of both the Israelites
  and the Philistines were similarly divided into companies of a hundred
  and a thousand (1 Sam. xxii. 7; xxix. 2; 2 Sam. xviii. 1). The system
  could not have been derived from Babylonia, where sixty was the unit
  of notation.

Footnote 197:

  See my _Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments_, pp. 74-77,
  and Hibbert Lectures on the _Religion of the Ancient Babylonians_, pp.
  70-77.

Footnote 198:

  The text of this is given in the 125th chapter of the Book of the
  Dead. A translation of it will be found in Wiedemann’s _Religion der
  alten Aegypter_, pp. 132, 133.

Footnote 199:

  The conceptions which underlay this were embodied in the mediæval
  jurisprudence of Europe, and curious reports exist of the trials of
  cocks, rats, flies, dogs, and even ants, which lasted down to the
  eighteenth century (see Baring-Gould, _Curiosities of Olden Times_,
  second edit., pp. 57-73).

Footnote 200:

  The exhortation, together with some of the laws, is given again in a
  somewhat changed form in Exod. xxxiv. 10-26.

Footnote 201:

  The name belongs to the period when the Philistines were infesting the
  sea, before they had settled on the coast of Palestine, and indicates
  the early date of the passage in which it occurs. Perhaps the Greek
  tradition of the command of the sea by the Kretan Minos is a
  reminiscence of the same period.

Footnote 202:

  W. A. I. i. 54, Col. ii. 54 _sqq._

Footnote 203:

  _Transactions_ of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vii. 1, pp. 53,
  54.

Footnote 204:

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The early history of the Hebrews

Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jews -- History -- To 953 B.C.

First pointed out by Baker Greene, _The Hebrew Migration from Egypt_,
  p. 170; Elim is the masculine, and Elath the feminine plural. Compare
  El-Paran, perhaps ‘El(im) of Paran,’ in Gen. xiv. 6, as well as Elah
  in Gen. xxxvi. 41.

Footnote 192:

  Exod. xvi. 1 compared with Numb. xxxiii. 11.

Footnote 193:

  The name is found in an inscription of Hadramaut (Osiander,
  _Inscriptions in the Himyaritic Character_, p. 29), where the god is
  called the son of Atthar or Istar instead of her brother, as in
  Babylonia, as well as in a Sabæan text from Sirwaḥ.

Footnote 194:

  Numb. xiii. 26. The sanctuary had originally been Amalekite (Gen. xiv.
  7).

Footnote 195:

  Unfortunately, no calculation of distance can be made from the
  statement that Elijah was ‘forty days and forty nights’ on his way
  from Jezreel to Horeb, since ‘forty’ merely denotes an unknown number.

Footnote 196:

  In the early days of the monarchy the armies of both the Israelites
  and the Philistines were similarly divided into companies of a hundred
  and a thousand (1 Sam. xxii. 7; xxix. 2; 2 Sam. xviii. 1). The system
  could not have been derived from Babylonia, where sixty was the unit
  of notation.

Footnote 197:

  See my _Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments_, pp. 74-77,
  and Hibbert Lectures on the _Religion of the Ancient Babylonians_, pp.
  70-77.

Footnote 198:

  The text of this is given in the 125th chapter of the Book of the
  Dead. A translation of it will be found in Wiedemann’s _Religion der
  alten Aegypter_, pp. 132, 133.

Footnote 199:

  The conceptions which underlay this were embodied in the mediæval
  jurisprudence of Europe, and curious reports exist of the trials of
  cocks, rats, flies, dogs, and even ants, which lasted down to the
  eighteenth century (see Baring-Gould, _Curiosities of Olden Times_,
  second edit., pp. 57-73).

Footnote 200:

  The exhortation, together with some of the laws, is given again in a
  somewhat changed form in Exod. xxxiv. 10-26.

Footnote 201:

  The name belongs to the period when the Philistines were infesting the
  sea, before they had settled on the coast of Palestine, and indicates
  the early date of the passage in which it occurs. Perhaps the Greek
  tradition of the command of the sea by the Kretan Minos is a
  reminiscence of the same period.

Footnote 202:

  W. A. I. i. 54, Col. ii. 54 _sqq._

Footnote 203:

  _Transactions_ of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vii. 1, pp. 53,
  54.

Footnote 204:

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The early history of the Hebrews

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