[556] Perhaps this disfavor arose in part from the fact that, as a papyrus not translated here shows, two other deities were worshiped along with Jehovah.
[557] It is possible that the Elephantine colony were taken from northern Israel.
[558] Translated from the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, X, 478, f., and Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscriptions, IV, 60*.
[559] Literally, “like opening and shutting.”
[560] Perhaps one of the antediluvian Babylonian kings. (See Part II, [Chapter IV].) The Sumerian form of his name was Laluralim and in Rawlinson’s Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, Vol. V, p. 44, 17b, is glossed as Zugagib or “scorpion.” Zugagib is one of the early kings of Babylonia, who is said to have ruled 840 years.
[561] Translated from S. Langdon’s Historical and Religious Texts from the Temple Library of Nippur, Munich, 1914, No. 16.
[562] Translated from Haupt’s Akkadische und sumerische Keilschrifttexte, 116, ff., with comparison of Zimmern’s Babylonische Busspsalmen, 33, f.
[563] Translated from Haupt’s Akkadische und Sumerische Keilschrifttexte, p. 122, f.
[564] Translated from Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c., in the British Museum, Part XV, pp. 16, 17.
[565] Translated from Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c. in the British Museum, XV, 10.