The Covenant of Salt / As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought

by H. Clay Trumbull

[1] See Blood Covenant and Threshold Covenant, passim.

[2] See Gesenius's Hebraeisches und Aramaeisches Wörterbuch, 12th ed., p. 120; Norwach's Lehrbuch der Hebræischen Archæologie, I., p. 358, note 1; Friedrich Delitzsch's The Hebrew Language Viewed in the Light of Assyrian Research, p. 41; Blood Covenant, 2d ed., p. 264.

[3] Blood Covenant, 2d ed., pp. 64, 75, 77.

[4] Blood Covenant, 2d ed., pp. 232-238, 326-330.

[5] Ibid., pp. 14, 24, 28, 35 f., 62, 270; 1 Sam. 18 : 4; 20 : 1-13.

[6] Ibid., 2d ed., p. 334 f.

[7] Ibid., pp. 215-233; Gen. 17 : 1-14; Ellis's History of Madagascar, pp. 176-186.

[8] Blood Covenant, 2d ed., p. 335.

[9] See Trumbull's Friendship the Master-Passion, p. 73 f.

[10] See W. Robertson Smith's Religion of the Semites, pp. 203, 252; Art. "Salt," by W. R. S. in Encyc. Brit.; Trumbull's Studies in Oriental Social Life, pp. 106-112, with citations; Norwach's Lehrbuch der Hebræischen Archæologie, II, p. 245, etc.