Archæology and the Bible

by George A. Barton

[386] See Barton, work cited, No. 229⁽¹⁸⁾.

[387] Jared might, of course, be a corruption of Irad (see [p. 270]). It could have arisen by the wearing away of the Hebrew letter Ayin.

[388] See his Unity of the Book of Genesis, New York, 1895, Chapter II.

[389] See Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, II, 59, rev. 9, and Zimmern’s Babylonischer Gott Tamūz, p. 13.

[390] Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, XV, 243-246.

[391] Expository Times, X, 253.

[392] See Chapter VI, [p. 273].

[393] Historical Texts, p. 42.

[394] Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, V, 44, 17b. The Semitic name of this king is also said to have been Tabu-utul-bel. He is the one whose fortunes correspond so closely to those of Job. (See [Chapter XX].)

[395] See Meissner, Seltene assyrische Ideogramme, No. 6945.