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See p. 464. See ib., note 3. See especially pp. 484 and 575. Ezekiel, viii. 14. There is probably a reference also to the Tammuz festival in Zech, xii. 10, 11. Zeits. f. Assyr. ix. 290 seq. See Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, ii. 648 seq. Rassam Cylinder, col. i. ll. 11, 12. See pp. 105 and 173 seq. IVR. 32, 49b, where the 20th day of the intercalated Elul is so designated.
And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them. Neh. viii. 1-12. The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, which was the sixth month. The events recorded in this passage took place on the first day of the seventh month.
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
The Jews that dwell there are very rich. No rain falls, neither is ice or snow ever seen. The climate is very hot. The river Nile rises once a year in the month of Elul; it covers all the land, and irrigates it to a distance of fifteen days' journey. The waters remain upon the surface of the land during the months of Elul and Tishri, and irrigate and fertilize it.
At the new moon of the month Elul, Moses had the trumpet sounded throughout the camp, announcing to the people that he would once more betake himself to God for forty days to receive the second tables from Him, so that they might be alarmed by his absence; and he stayed in heaven until the tenth day of Tishri, on which day he returned with the Torah and delivered it to Israel.
Perhaps Memphis, as he evidently alludes to the pyramids. Kahira, or Cairo, called also Messir. Elul contains from the middle of August to the middle of September and Tisri from that to the middle of October. But the Nile begins to rise in the middle of June, and returns to its usual level in October. Of the Rabbinists or Talmudists.
They thereupon attacked Jazer, conquered it, and when upon the day after Moses had sent them out they returned to him, they informed him that they had conquered Jazer and slain its inhabitants. The war with Sihon took place in the month of Elul. In the following month of Tishri they rested on account of the holy days, but immediately after these they set out to battle against Og.
A complete calendar for the intercalated month of Elul has been preserved. It may serve as an example of the branch of the omen literature to which it belongs. The thirty days of each month are taken up in succession. The deity to which each day is sacred is indicated, and various sacrifices or precautions prescribed.
Just as his acts of penitence have a representative character, so the gifts and sacrifices and supplications mentioned in the calendar are offered by the king on behalf of the whole people. For the remaining days of Elul, the ordinances have much the same character as those instanced. The variation consists chiefly in the god or gods to whom the days are sacred.
I.e., the Intercalated Elul. Lit., 'raising of his hand to a god' the attitude in prayer. Text erroneously 'mistress. Here and elsewhere Ishtar is used in a generic sense for 'chief goddess'; in the present case Sarpanitum. See above, pp. 82, 151, 206. 'Belit, as 'mistress' in general. Lit., 'place of secrecy, the reference being to that portion of the temple where the god sat enthroned.
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