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

10 TEE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS AND TEE 0. T.
10 Lenormant, P. Haupt). Haupt refers to II R 8. 30 c d, in which the
ideogram ZU6, which is interpreted in Akkadische u. Sumerischo
Keilschrifttexte page 33 No. 771 by susu, is also explained by si'ru
"field" = id in i. e. n^/
render susa by "cornfield."
(see below). Haupt therefore prefers to
II lines 7 — 11. This section is parallel to lines 1— 6, and commences
in like manner with inuma (see above).— 7. On manama, manaman,
man man, mam man, maman 'whosoever', 'whatsoever', see Norris'
Dictionary 832 foil.; also my remarks in "Criticism of Inscriptions of
Tiglath Pileser II, Asarhaddon and Asurbanipal" 1879 p. 14. On sQpfl as
synonym for asfl "proceed forth" (IV Rawl. 2, 5. 6a; 26, 17/18a; 25/26a
also HE. 17, 47a b), see Fried. Delitzsch in Smith's Chaldaean Genesis
(Germ, ed.) 298.—After §imatav we ought certainly to supply a 3
pers. plur. of the verb (subject "the gods") , according to Haupt
simu, according to Lenormant simat(?). — adi ^j; means "and also"
in accordance with Hebrew usage.—irbu "grew up", a sense which it
is well known to bear. Under no circumstances ought we to translate :
"until their number increased" (0pp.).— 12. The creation of SAR and
KI SAR expresses the creation of the "host of Heaven and Earth",
compare the Hebrew DX^'i'^DI 't: t:ivtt: VINmI D''DU'n --t-
H- 1- To P. Haupt
belongs the merit of having first perceived the meaning of this ex-
pression : "That this is the meaning, may be inferred from the passage
"IV Rawl. 25, 49/50b (comp. IV R. 29, 41/42a), in which an-sar ki-
"sar is represented by the Assyrian kisiat game u irsiti 'host of
"heaven and earth.' In the passage before us ki-§ar is also preceded
"by the divine determinative an [:= ilu], which of course was not
"necessary in the case of ana-sar 'host of heaven' ". G. Smith, Sayce
and Fr. Delitzsch have already perceived that the Akkadian sar is
equivalent to the Assyrian kis§atuv. See also the syllabary in
Akkadische u. Sumerische Keilschriftt. 28 No. 605 *. It should
moreover be observed that in the hymn IV Rawl. 9 obv. line 3/4 foil.
Nannar "the illuminator", i.e. the Moougod, appears as the Prince of
an SAR = kiSsat Sami i. e. "Prince of the heavenly host."
HI With line 13 commences a third paragraph. The words 'the
days extended' indicate tliis with tolerable clearness (comp. line 1 and
line 7). —Ann** i. e. J^ (comp. the Hebrew TjSlQJl? = Anu-malik
2 Kings XVII. 31) is probably the Oannes of Berossus and in the lists
* The name_ for 60 X 60 = 3600 i. e. (7«()0? is identical with this
gar =: kiggatu; see Fr. Delitzsch in Aegyptische Zeitschrift 1878 p. 67.
** Oppert's rendering 'the god Bel' certainly rests on mere oversight.
The cuneiform text cannot be misunderstood.