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It may be objected, that such a process of reasoning as that put forward, is not convincing to a general reader who has not the means of criticizing or testing Professor Delitzsch's conclusions: he therefore cannot be sure that, in selecting two channels to represent the Pison and the Gihon, and in identifying "Mashu" with Mesha of Havilah, and one of the Babylonian districts with Kush, the Professor has at last hit off a solution of the problem which will not in its turn be disproved, as all earlier solutions have been.
To sit and study his Hebrew Isaiah with Delitzsch's comment was his chief pleasure; and on his birthday, April 1, Easter Eve, and the ensuing holy days, he read over all his Father's letters to him, and dwelt, in the remarks to his sisters, upon their wisdom and tenderness. Mr.
The importance of Professor Delitzsch's work may now be briefly glanced at.
The troubles of the earlier commentators will warn us, that we need not be too ready to force names, and to identify one river, and then, because we have fixed that, make the country which the text requires follow it! It is, however, in this matter that Professor Delitzsch's work is so satisfactory.
A Babylonian district is naught but an extended city. See p. 429. Gen. viii. 22. See above, p. 370, and chapter xxii. I.e., for each of the great gods. I.e., of the gods. A particular group of stars the mashi stars is mentioned, but the term seems to be used in a rather general sense. I cannot share Delitzsch's extreme skepticism with regard to the interpretation of the fifth tablet.
In this version Eabani gives Gilgamesh a description of Aralû, which tallies with the one found in the Ishtar tale. Text defective. Jeremias' suggestion, "the land that thou knowest," misses the point. The person addressed does not know the land. See Haupt's Nimrodepos, pp. 17, 40, and Delitzsch's Assyr. Wörterbuch, p. 321, note. Lit., 'the one who has entered it. I.e., of the inhabitants.
Trumbull, The Threshold Covenant, chapter vii. See p. 536. Or as a third dream. Haupt, pp. 45, 53. Attitude of despair. I.e., 'offspring of life. I adopt Delitzsch's reading of the name. At the recent Eleventh International Congress of Orientalists, Scheil presented a tablet dealing with the deluge narrative. See p. 507, note 1. "Client of Marduk."
See above, p. 63. My rendering is given in continuous lines. The legend is in narrative, not in poetic form. Adapa. Lit., 'house. Neither Delitzsch's suggestion 'god of dwellings' nor Harper's 'god thou art strong' is acceptable. See p. 99. See p. 462. See the following chapter. See pp. 139 seq. First suggested by Zimmern. Of the eighth century. See Harper, ib. p. 424. To Ea.
On these night watches, see Delitzsch's article in the Zeitschrift für Keilschriftforschung, ll. 284-294. See above, pp. 267, 343. Kharimtu, Kisritu, Ukhatu, Shamuktu. See IIR, 32, no. 2, ll. 31-36, and above, pp. 475, 484. See his article on "Sacrifice" in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and his Religion of the Semites, Lectures VI-XI. Inscription G, cols, iii-vi.
Adding three to the ordinary winds from the four directions. For the explanation of the term used in the original kirbish see Delitzsch's excellent remarks, Babylonische Weltschöpfungsepos. pp. 132-134. Lit., 'storm, perhaps the thunderbolt, as Delitzsch suggests. Marduk. She lost her reason. Gasping, as it were, for breath. Cory's Ancient Fragments, p. 49.
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