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medieval origin, in the fourth (Hypophrygian) mode of the Gregorian plain-song, ranging from the fourth degree below the mediant to the fifth above. This melody is now one of the " representative themes " (see Music, Synagogal) of the penitential season; being heard as an anticipatory announcement in the chanting of the Selihot which precede it, and again in the Confession of Faith (Shema"), which closes it at the end of the Da)- of Atonement. It affords one of the best examples of that characteristically Oriental cadence, descending the interval of a fourth on to the final note, which so frequently closes with their own peculiar flavor many of the older medieval chants in the German and Polish tradition. a.
Ashmodai Ashteroth
city, known variously as Ashtaroth, " " Ashteroth Karnaim, " and " Karnaim, and that the statement of Eusebius is due to the interchange which some of the names of the region underwent in the later time. This conclusion seems justified from the fact that the sources which are really old
tament period only one "
Thothmes III. [W. Max Milller, "Asien und Europa," p. 162], and El-Amarna letters; compare Schrader, "K. B." v. (see p. 206) Nos. 142, 237; and Sayce, "Patriarchal Palestine," pp. 133, 153) mention but one place, and that the Biblical material is all of such a nature as to make the (the inscription of
supposition of two places unnecessary. The question can not be actually determined till the sites arc explored.
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