The cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament - The Search For ...

espondence was carried on by Egypt with Babylonia and the upper
Euphrates, Dr. Schrader takes a different view respecting "IT^i^ and
abarakku and considers them to be closely connected. The term either
migrated from the Aegyptians to the Babylonians and Assyrians or it
was borrowed by the Aegyptians from the Babylonians. Comp. the
word targumannu 'interpreter' occurring in these tablets, the Assy-
rians having it in the form turgumanuu (which word is Aramaic
in origin). See Sitzungsberichte der Konigl. Preuss. Akad. der Wis-
sensch. May 1888 : Der Thontafelfund von Tell-Amarna. Comp. also
my note in Expositor, August 1888, p. 157 foil.
p. 141. Exod. IX. 7. Instead of ik-bu-ud Fried. Delitzsch, followed
by S. Alden Smith (Keilschrifttexte Asurbanipal's Heft I pp. 10, 91),
would read ik-pu-ud from kapadu 'think' or 'plan'. This significa-
tion is supported by Asurbanipal, cyl. col. I. 120 lib-ba-§u-nu-ti
ik-pu-ud limut-tu da-bab-ti sur-ra-a-ti id-bu-bu-ma (see Glossary
33"[). "Their heart devised evil, plans of insurrection they planned
(uttered)".
p. 175 line 10 from below read:
—
vicegerents.
p. 180 line 5 from below read :— combatant (subjugator). On p. 181
line 2 read :— conqueror.
p. 183 foil. Dr. James A Craig has made a fresh collation of the
monolith-inscription of Salmanassar II , published in 'Hebraica' July
1887. I here insert the corrections of the text as published by
monarch , Kurigalzu, must therefore have been the contemporary of
Amenophis III. The chief correspondent of Amenophis III was king
Dusratta of Mitanni. From a notice by the Aegyptian keeper of the
royal archives we learn that Naharina = Mitanni as a geographi-
cal term (comp. Vol. I p. 100 and footn. ***). This kingdom evidently
was one of the most powerful in the 15 t^ century politics.
The above paper draws attention to the palaeographical peculiarities
of the cuneiform :— a word, written ideographically, is repeated in
phonetic form, for the sake of clearness; a dual sign is prefixed
instead of affixed; the phonogram pi is used also to express ma
(perhaps owing to confusion). Still more interesting are the linguistic
peculiarities: Si-mir-ra is here written Su-mu-ra (Heb. "^l^li Vol. I
p. 89); As-ka-lu-na for Is-ka-lu-na (ibid. p. 153); (m§,t) Misir, as
in Babyl., for Assyr. (mat) Musur or 'Aegypt' Vol. I p. 71 foil.
Ak-ka for Assyr. Ak-ku-u (p. 161); Ma-ki-da probably for Megiddo,
Assyr. Ma-gi(or ga)-du (p. 156). It is also interesting to note the
form a-nu-ki employed as the first personal pronoun instead of a-naku
due, Prof. Schrader thinks, to Canaanite influence (Hebr. l^J}^).