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

GENESIS XV. 123
off with others from Susa by Asurbanlpal (V Rawl. 6, col.
VI. 33), and that the name Kedorlaomer in Greek assumes
the form XodoXXoyofiOQ which completely coincides in its
second part with the name Lagamar. In the present
state of investigation further or more definite information
cannot be given. To identify K u d ur-Lagamar (Kedor-
Laomer), without further grounds, with the Kudur-
Mabug of the inscriptions (G. Smith) appears unwar-
ranted.*
'?^in Tid'dl, king of the heathen. With respect to this
name we refrain from any conjecture whether as to origin
or meaning. The strange word D;'i3 occurring among other
names of races, is taken by Sir H. Rawlinson as also the
name of a race, and is ingeniously connected with the tribe
Gutt orKutt frequently referred to in the inscriptions of
the Assyrians and whose abode should be sought in the
North-East (not the West) of Babylonia , on the Median
frontier. On this people see further on Ezek. XXIII, 23. 138
XV. 2. ptt'Sl Darnaskus. In Assyrian the name of the
city appears with as well as without the duplication of the
second radical. It appears sometimes in the form Dimaski
(written Di- ma- as -ki) and sometimes in the form Dimaska
(Di-mas-ka) and also Dimmaska (Dim-
mas-ka). See Rammannir§,r 21 (I Rawl. 35); Khorsab.
33 ; Assurb. Astronomical-table subscriptions III Rawl. 48
No. 4. 71. Respecting the sibilant comp. my Keilinsch.
u. Geschichtsf. p. 364. It should also be observed that,
so far as I can see, the term Darnaskus in the Assyrian
ma-ri] among the Elamites. See the inscription in Oppert, Theol.
Stud, und Kritik. 1871 p. 185; Fr. Lenormaut, textes choisis II p. 121.
* See Oppert in Theol. Studieu und Kiitiken 1871 p. 511.