[1119] See the following chapter.
[1120] See the pa.s.sages in Jeremias" _Die Babylonisch-a.s.syrischen Vorstellungen vom Leben nach dem Tode_, p. 62.
[1121] Sargon Annals, I. 156. Jensen"s interpretation of the pa.s.sage (_Kosmologie_, p. 231) is forced, as is also his explanation of IIR. 51, 11a, where a mountain Aralu is clearly designated.
[1122] _Kosmologie_, pp. 222-224.
[1123] Gunkel"s _Schopfung und Chaos_, p. 154, note 5.
[1124] In an article on "Shualu" published in the _American Journal of Semitic Languages_ (xiv.), I have set forth my reasons for accepting this word as a Babylonian term for the nether world.
[1125] In the later portions of the Old Testament, the use of Sheol is also avoided. See the pa.s.sages in Schwally, _Das Leben nach dem Tode nach den Vorstellungen des Alten Israels_, pp. 59, 60.
[1126] Not "Ort der Entscheidung," as Jeremias, _ib._ p. 109, proposes.
[1127] See above, p. 329.
[1128] I Sam. xxviii. 11.
[1129] See p. 511.
[1130] See Schwally, _ib._ pp. 59-63.
[1131] Isaiah, viii. 19.
[1132] One of the names for the priest in Babylonia is Sha"ilu, _i.e._, "inquirer," and the corresponding Hebrew word Sho"el is similarly used in a few pa.s.sages of the Old Testament; _e.g._, Deut. xviii. 11; Micah, vii. 3. See an article by the writer on "The Stem Sha"al and the Name of Samuel," in a forthcoming number of the _Journal of the Society of Biblical Literature_.
[1133] See above, pp. 333 _seq._
[1134] See p. 167.
[1135] See above, p. 167, and Scheit, _Le Culte de Gudea_, etc.
(_Recueil des Travaux_, xviii. 64 _seq._)
[1136] Thureau-Dangin, _Le Culte des Rois dans la periode Prebabylonienne_ (_Recueil des Travaux_, etc., xix. 486).
[1137] See above, p. 36. The text is published IIIR. pl. 4, no. 7.
Recently, Mr. Pinches has published a variant version of this story (_Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._ xviii. 257, 258).
[1138] IVR. 34.
[1139] In view of recent discussions of the subject, it is important to note that Tiele already fifteen years ago recognized that Sargon was a historical personage. See his remarks, _Babyl. a.s.syr. Gesch._, p. 112.
[1140] Chapter ii.
[1141] See Winterbotham, "The Cult of Father Abraham," in the _Expositor_, 1897, pp. 177-186.
[1142] See Jensen"s _Kosmologie_, p. 215, and Meissner, _Altbabylonisches Privatrecht_, p. 21. The word is used for the foundation of a building, and is an indication, therefore, of the great depth at which the nether world was placed.
[1143] See below, p. 567, and Jensen"s _Kosmologie_, p. 259.
[1144] See pp. 65, 66.
[1145] _Kabru_ and _Gegunu_ ("dark place").
[1146] See also below, pp. 566, 567.
[1147] Published IV Rawlinson (2nd edition), pl. 31.
[1148] See p. 483.
[1149] The Old Testament recognizes only two seasons, summer and winter.
See, _e.g._, Gen. viii. 22.
[1150] See the discussion in Robertson Smith"s _Religions of the Semites_, pp. 391-394; and also Farnall, _The Cults of the Greek States_, ii. 644-649.
[1151] See above, p. 484.
[1152] See above, p. 510.
[1153] _I.e._, according to one version (p. 511). Another version of this part of the Gilgamesh epic, which, however, is influenced by the tale of Ishtar"s visit, is published in Haupt"s _Nimrodepos_, pp. 16-19.
In this version Eabani gives Gilgamesh a description of Aralu, which tallies with the one found in the Ishtar tale.
[1154] Text defective. Jeremias" suggestion, "the land that thou knowest," misses the point. The person addressed does not know the land.
"Decay" is Schrader"s conjecture (_Die Hollenfahrt der Istar_, p. 24).
See Haupt"s _Nimrodepos_, pp. 17, 40, and Delitzsch"s _a.s.syr.
Worterbuch_, p. 321, note.
[1155] Lit., "the one who has entered it."
[1156] _I.e._, of the inhabitants.
[1157] The inhabitants.
[1158] See p. 461.
[1159] See below, p. 591.
[1160] See pp. 502, 511.
[1161] Particularly by Herbert Spencer and his followers.
[1162] Isaiah, xiv 9-20, and Ezekiel, x.x.xii. 18-31. In Isaiah, the Babylonian Aralu is specifically described, while Ezekiel writes under the influence of Babylonian ideas.
[1163] Isaiah, viii. 19.
[1164] The Hebrew word for "the dead," _refaim_, conveys this idea.
[1165] See p. 512.