The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament; - The Search For ...

62 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND THE 0. T.
80 list of kings (Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeo-
logy 1881 p. 38); also the statement of Berossus-Polyhistor
(Eusebius-Schoenel. 23):
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regionem Evexius tenehat neris quatuor.
quod post diluvium Chaldaeorum
2, ISJil Goiner, identical with the (mat) Gimirrai i, e.
"those belonging to the people (Assyr. ''land") Gimir",
occurring in the inscriptions of the Assyrians after Asar-
haddon (cyl. II. 6). With reference to the variation in
the Hebrew vocalization, compare ^DH with Assyr. Tabal
and Greek Ti^aQtjvol on the one hand, Hebrew T]^p with
Assyr. Muski and Greek Mooxoi on the other. Accordingly
identical with Gdmer we have the Kimmerians [Kif^ntQioi)
mentioned in Greek writers. This race of Kimmerians, as
we shall have to assume, were settled, at the time when
the table of races was drawn up, high in the North by the
Euxine on the Tauric peninsula, whence they subsequently
passed over Sinope into the central parts of Asia Minor
see Keilinschriften u. Geschichtsforschung pp. 157 foil.
Respecting Gdmer = Cappadocia see on Ezek. XXXVIII. 6.
•liiD Magog , according to the most prevalent hypothesis,
the Scythians. Hitherto this name has not been found in
the inscriptions.
no Media, Assyr. (m^t) Madai (Ma-da-ai). In
the latter form the name is first mentioned in the reign of
Rammannirar (812 — 783), likewise mentioned in the in-
scriptions of the Achaemenidae (Behistun 14. 16. 23 &c.).
Probably we may regard as identical with this the mS,t
Matai (Ma-ta-ai) mentioned in the inscriptions of his
immediate predecessor Samsi-Ramman, as well as the mS.t
A ra a d a i (A - m a - d a - a i) of his grandfather Salmanassar
II. (Keilins. u. Gesch. p. 171).
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