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Examples of the ordinary sandals abound (far Egypt,
see q. 'it. 2, figs. 443 A), and are represented
,, nlus tratiOns "POD the oldest monuments depict-
the
monnments,
mg inhabitants of Sardinia (WMM
As. U. Ear 374), Cilicia (ib. 340s).
Wertrru Asia Minor (i6. 364f.). etc.
They vary from a mere role bound with a thong, to
elegant and elaborate rhaer of the richest ornamentation,
and are variouslv made of such materials as oalm-
4.~~~h.95 affords the interesting phrare nix&?$ nii: niip
Lrhoer, worn out, and parched.'
S mh'll, ipr?,~r. SSqAV. RVmz.'rhoe~'(so~)ir properly
'bars' (RV, DX., steuernagel, c~c.), cp r,ran.cl, kyg, NC~. s 3,
Cant. 5 5.
4499'
tiiUlt. (asif lixy); see vg., ~eih., s;,.,
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also ~arhi, 1bn
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leau&, and papyrus ;talks (Egypt), linen (~hmnicia), Perh., Sym., nlm Rashi, and ibn EZTX explain jin?, 'tumult.']
and leather (Ass~ia, etc).'
AV ('bartle'1 frvourr the latter vie\": RV the former2 Our
In Assyria the simplest and most common variety
riChicourre (5 perhaps to compare ~ r ~ idercripfionr l ~ l of ,he
abolition of war elhewhere(e.f., PI. 409 [lo)). So at any rate
consists of a sole with buck and sides bound to the foot Cheyne, who rsjesu ,,KO altogether, and, finding other improb.
by two bands over the instep (see Perrot~Chipier, Arf abilities inthe textof Is. 94 [il. proposesappossible reconstruction
in Chald., etc., 1761, at timer a third band crosser the (SBOT, 'Ira.,' LC.).
foes, and is, again, sonletimer connected with the straps There are man" references to the shoe in the OT
over the inrtep."n a painting on stucco from Ninnrild which have a close relation to important ~ebrew customs,
(op. rit, 2, pl. xi".). the sandals are coloured black, the + Hebntw but the Hebrewind even the Greek text
stram . . vellow. A more serviceable and not uncommon customB- sometimes requires close preliminary invariety
is reen to advantage in the foot-gear of APur~bSni-
vestigation. (a) We notice first the compal's
followers (op. zit, 1x45. 2. opp. p. '38). Over a to th8 shok mand to .Moses to draw off his shoes3 when
kind of tighr-fitting bandage enveloping the leg is a boot
on
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~, eround 1Ex.Rr. co 1211 lash.
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reaching mid-way up the back of the calf, the uppers 51~). This supplier a trace of a pr~mitive taboo, to which
being connected by straps. Similar straps are interlaced those who assisted at religious festivals, especially in the
from the top of the boot (top-lacings?) and appear to be sacred dance or procession (cp DANCE, % 2-61, were
held up by a garter worn just below the knee.' A third subiect.' Tunics and the like were washed to avoid
impor&ni variety is seen Cn the turned-up boot, a charac- this' taboo. ~n ~gypt, too, we find that the priests
teristic feature of the Hittites ico ~. Perrot-Chioiez. Ad in frequently took off their sandals when officiating in the
Izdea, 2, fig. 282, and passim), a good example of temole. On theother hand. a norshiowr ..
such as Aiurwhich
is seen in the representation of one of Agar-narii- narir-pal offers a libation still wearing them (Perrotpal's
vassals at Nimrmd (Arl in Arr. 2, fig. 64). Finally, Chipier, Art in Chald, etc., 2 fig, II~). Thc Talnilld
from the Egyptian monuments, we perceive that the sav~ , 1 , YP6iimoth. 661 that no one was allowed to aooroach ..
Bedouins of the Sinaitic peninsula customarily went bare- the temple with staff, shoes, purse, or dirt on the
footed (ar in common at the present day, see Doughty, (6) N~XI, we have to deali.ith an obscure reference
Ax Dei. IS*,) ; on the occasion of long journeys, how- in Ps. 608 [xo] 1089 [ro]. We know from Ruth 47 (see
ever. they nppear to have worn a sandal of black ieather, below) that drawing off the shoe meant giving np a legal
the females, on the other hand, being depicted with a right. May we assume from Ps. LC., that casting a
sort of boot. reachine - to the ankle, of red leather with a shoe on a piece of land war the sign of taking posbrssion
white border.
of it? Roienm"1ler (see Delirrsch's coo~mentary) quotes
From a consideration of these circunlrtances and our anAbyrriniancurtom of this sort ; Delitzrch andBvethgen
knowledee of the statues of the earliest Hebrews. we mav follow him. Others (see RVmE.) think that Edom is here
suspect that they, too. at first, were unaccurtomed to represented as a slave to whom the shoe is cart. that he
wear shoes save in travelling (cp Ex. 12rr Dt.295 Jorh. may carry it.6 Hut this is forced; and the reference to
95 the fact that, in later timer, to go bare- Moab as a ' washpot' being at least equally strange. it
footed (i.e., to revert to the older practice) war looked may be necessary to suppose corruption of the text (see
upon a deprivation and ar a minifertaiion of griet Che. ProlnuF!b The idiom which the psalmist would
(Is.202-4 Ezek. 24.7 23, cp z S. 15p) shown that the haw used, had he wished to describe the hu,nilinfion
custom of wear in^ shoes soon became firmly established. of a conquered countly. would have been 'upon Edom
Shoes or randas are frequently nlentioned,
will I place my feet,' or the like (cp Jorh. 1014). Wilkin-
The ordinary temirxd'al, iy! (Jtoconfine, son (Zs26) giver a picture of a captive in the lining of
3. Eeb. and shut in),n~v~~hoe
.bur ~v'randrlr.in cant. an Egyptian sandal, depicting the humiliating condition
Gk. terma. I*!, B 6,,s.ir.A frequentiy, o.us~~lr considered suited to the enemies of the country.
in Josh. O j 15. 202. Both occur in the NT,
dnoS+psra, Mt.811 1010 Mk. 11 elc. (EV 'shoes'), and
(c) In the hIT of Am.26 and 86 a 'pair of sandals.'
oava;&.,
~ k sy . A ~ ~ S(EV I S ~ 'randds'). vg. has bath ~~icro- which, made in a few minuter, would be dear at a pmny,
mmcn and ruuiaiia. I" the Mishna the term for a shoemaker would seem to be proverbial for something of small
ir .hm ~Y~T,; the word '~+~d~l' had become nartrralihed. The value.' Hut the paraliel clause has 'for money' : viy>
strap by which the sandal is bound under the foor ir called in
may not be the correct reading.
biblical Hebrew j?r8h, .li,e (.+~rnarp-i~; and :*is, uith which
Ir ir true that it is supported by I S. 123 Band Ecclus. 48196
a ht., which agrEe in samuel too honourai1ic
to even P ~ ~ (randrlr) s j u a ~ bnbc. ~ Bur ~ nu ~ doubt
1 On Ass. ;mu, 'rhoe'(the ideogram means 'road-leather'),
reepl. Ass. HwB, s.v., md Hnupt on 'I%.'/.c., in SBOT,
'1s.