71 Or the Deuteronomic redactor, as the critics call him. See W. Robertson Smith, _The Old Testament in the Jewish Church_2 (London and Edinburgh, 1892), pp. 395 _sq._, 425; _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, ii. 2078 _sqq._, 2633 _sqq._, iv. 4273 _sqq._; K. Budde, _Geschichte der althebräischen Litteratur_ (Leipsic, 1906), pp. 99, 121 _sqq._, 127 _sqq._, 132; Principal J. Skinner, in his introduction to Kings (in _The Century Bible_), pp. 10 _sqq._ M19 The Baal and his female Baalath the sources of all fertility. 72 Menander of Ephesus, quoted by Josephus, _Contra Apionem_, i. 18 (_Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C. Müller, iv. 446); G. A. Cooke, _Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, No. 4, p. 26. According to Justin, however, the priest of Hercules, that is, of Melcarth, at Tyre, was distinct from the king and second to him in dignity. See Justin, xviii. 4, 5. 73 Hosea ii. 5 _sqq._; W. Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_2 (London, 1894), pp. 95-107. 74 W. Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_,2 pp. 107 _sq._ M20 Personation of the Baal by the king. _ 75 The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, ii. 120 _sqq._, 376 _sqq._ M21 Cinyras, king of Byblus. Aphaca and the vale of the Adonis. Monuments of Adonis. 76 Strabo, xvi. 1. 18, p. 755. 77 Lucian, _De dea Syria_, 9. 78 Eusebius, _Vita Constantini_, iii. 55; Sozomenus, _Historia Ecclesiastica_, ii. 5; Socrates, _Historia Ecclesiastica_, i. 18; Zosimus, i. 58.