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tended war Seti (the natural equivalent of Sethos)? As
Brugch relates : '-
'The war3 of Seti towards the E. began in the first year of
his reign. Tha sceneof them wa% the districts and Lhefonmisrr
on ,hc territory of the Shuu, or Bedouin, "from the fortrerr
Khctrm, in the land of Zslu, to thc ?lace .. . The
ior,re,s Knn'mr wrs stormed by set1 ~ "d hlr wrn.io.3, and ro
Pharaoh became the lord of the entire Edomire Ncecb.'
The name of the Sharu chief is not given us. It is
not unreasonable to suppose that the popular tradition
caught up by Herodotus spoke of 'the chieftain of the
Arabian Shasn,' arid that this became to Herodotus'
ears, '[Sennacherib] the king of the Arabians and
Arryrinoa.'
The remlt, so far attained, ir that the only historical
accounts of the campaign of Sennncherib against Judah
and its capital nre to be found in the cuneifornl inrcripfions
of Sennacherib and in the short extract from the
A n 1 0 d h (2 K. 1 b.6) But how is the rest
of the Hebrew narrative to be accounted for? U'e are
not bound to answer the question here at length : but
some suggestions must be given. According to Mnrti
(/ei. zjg), the subject of the deliverance of Jemralem
from Sentlacherib attracted imaginative and didactic
writeri. Thir, indeed, is about all that we could
venture to ray, as the text of the Hebrew narrative now
it~nds. But it ii not all that we can say, if we give due
weieht to critical conriderationr. We must not ex-
SEPHARAD
SEPHAR (1eD; cw@wpa [AEL]) is mentioned
in Gen. as one of the boundaries of the territory
of the sons of Joktan. It has not ken identitied with
certaintv. The usual identification-a verv aoorooiiaie .. .
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oncir uirh the oa@p uf Prolemy, Plirry, imtl
the Pe~i$iws (i.e., the ancient Himyaiitc capital Znftrv) :
this aeain ir held bv Karl Rltter. Gereniui. . eic . to be
the s h e with the r;apoil of ~airamaut, near Mirbxi,
the name being now pronounced lrfdr or /f*ii. The
possibility of thhs may he granted; but it is still uncertain
(see ui. Geiz.IiJ, *or : Del. Gen. [1887]. $28). 'The
mountain of the East' is too general an explcrsiolr tu
give piccision to the ~cndetincd geographical terms of
this verse. ion the trxtunl criticiirn and thc iriennitle
task because we know that the two powers conriantly
prrsenl to the minds of the peoples of Israel and of
SEPEARAD (l??D, in pause for l3eD [BDB]?
ludah were N. Ambin and Assl~ia: the works of the
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