ology of 532 711 928f. is not to be got rid of either by wire-drawn arithmetical
calculations (Ra. al.), or by the assumption that in the other
passages round numbers are used (Tu. De.). The clause is evidently
a gloss, introduced apparently for the purpose of making the birth of
Arpakšad, rather than the Flood, the commencement of a new era.
It fits in admirably with the scheme of the B. of Jub., which gives an
integral number of year-weeks from the Creation to the birth of Arp.,
and from the latter event to the birth of Abraham (see p. 234 below).—12.
(
Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))] probably the same word which forms a component of
(Hebrew characters) (521ff.), and therefore originally a divine name. This need not
exclude a tribal or geographical sense, the name of a deity being frequently
transferred to his worshippers or their territory. A place Ṣalaḥ
or Salaḥ in Mesopotamia is instanced by Knobel (Di.). Others regard
it as a descriptive name = 'offshoot' or 'dismissal'; but very improbably.—14.
(Hebrew characters)] see on 1021.—16. (Hebrew characters)] 1025. Hommel (l.c.) combines the
two names and takes the compound as a notice of Shelaḥ's birthplace:
'Shelaḥ from Eber-peleg' = Eber-hannāhār, the region W of the lower
Euphrates (see pp. 218, 220 above).—18. (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))] unknown; certainly
not (Syriac characters) (Edessa). It is possibly abbreviated from (Hebrew characters) (364, Ex. 218
etc.: so Homm.); and Mez considers it a divine name. An Aramæan
tribe Ru'ua is frequently mentioned in Assyr. inscrs. as dwellers on the
banks of the Euphrates and Tigris, in or near Babylonia (Del. Par.
238 ff.).—20. (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))] a well-known city and district about half-way
between Carchemish and Ḥarran, mentioned by Syr. and Arab. writers
under the name Saruǧ. The name (Saruǧi) also occurs several times
in the census of the district round Ḥarran (7th cent. B.C.), published by
Johns under the title of An Assyrian Domesday Book: see pp. 29, 30,
43, 48, 68.—22. (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))] is in J the brother of Abraham (2220; cf.
Jos. 242); in P he is both the grandfather and the brother (1126). The
name must have been that of an important Aramæan tribe settled in or
around Ḥarran (2743 2810 294). Johns compares the place-name Til-Naḥiri
in the neighbourhood of Saruǧi; also the personal names Naḥirî
and Naḥarâu found in Assyrian Deeds (l.c. 71; Ass. Deeds, iii. 127; cf.
KAT3, 477 f.). As a divine name (Greek characters) is mentioned along with other
Aramæan deities on a Greek inscription from Carthage (KAT3, 477);
and Jen. (ZA, xi. 300) has called attention to the theophorous name
(Syriac characters) in the 'Doctrine of Addai,' as possibly a corruption of
(Syriac characters).—24. (Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters))] is instanced by Rob. Sm.[1] as a totem
clan-name; (Syriac characters) (?) being the Syr. and turâḥû the Ass. word for 'wild
goat.' Similarly Del. (Prol. 80), who also refers tentatively to Til-ša-*turâḥi,
the name of a Mesopotamian town in the neighbourhood of
Ḥarran. Knobel compares a place Tharrana, S of Edessa (Di.); Jen.
(ZA, vi. 70; Hittiter und Armenier, 150 ff. [esp. 154]) is inclined to
identify Teraḥ with the Hittite and N Syrian god (or goddess) Tarḫu,
(Greek characters), etc. (cf. KAT3, 484).—26. S reads 75 instead of 70.
- ↑ KM1, 220 (afterwards abandoned). Cf. Nöldeke, ZDMG, xl. 167 f.: "sicher unmöglich."
