[1684] 2 Kings, i, 2. The prophet Elijah, who was a zealous Yahwist, was very angry with the king for applying to a foreign deity; but evidently the Philistine shrine enjoyed a greater reputation than any in Israel.
[1685] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Index, s.v. Oracles.
[1686] Cf. Aust, Religion der Römer, Index, s.v. Orakel; see below, § 933 ff.
[1687] Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners under the Early Empire (Eng. tr.), p. 3, 129 ff.; Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People, p. 339.
[1688] Cicero, De Divinatione, i, 34, 37 f.; Plutarch, De Pythiae Oraculis and De Defectu Oraculorum; Gardner and Jevons, Greek Antiquities, Index, s.v. Oracles; Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité, Index, and Stengel and Oehmichen, Die greichischen Sakralaltertümer, Index; Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., article "Oracle."
[1689] On the position of women in ancient religion cf. Farnell's article in Archiv für Relgionswissenschaft, 1904.
[1690] Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie, pp. 102, 105; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, iv, 187 ff.
[1691] See above, §§ 362, 366.
[1692] See article "Ancestor-worship" and articles on lower tribes in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[1693] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 511.