Mythology among the Hebrews and Its Historical Development

by Ignác Goldziher

[191]. God in History, II. 8.

[192]. Narrative of a Year’s Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, I. 8.

[193]. See Welcker. Griechische Götterlehre, I. 551.

[194]. Zur hauranischen Alterthumskunde (Zeitschrift der D. M. G., 1861, XV. 444).

[195]. It should be noted that from Ibn Dureyd, Kitâb al-ishtiḳâḳ, p. 96. II, it is evidently possible that in such compounds the word ʿabd itself may belong to the idol; he writes wa-ʿabdu shamsⁱⁿ zaʿamû ṣanam^un wa-ḳâla ḳaum^un bal ʿaynu mâⁱⁿ maʿrufat^un wa-hua ism^un ḳadîm^un: ‘ʿAbd Shams is in the opinion of some an idol, others say it is the name of a well-known spring of water: it is an old name.’

[196]. Tuch, Sinaitische Inschriften (Zeitschr. der D. M. G., 1849, III. 202).—Osiander, Vorislam. Religion der Araber (Zeitschr. der D. M. G., 1853. VII. 483).

[197]. Tâj-al-ʿarûs, II. 209.

[198]. Schlottmann, Die Inschrift Eshmunazar’s, Halle 1868, p. 84.

[199]. Yâḳût, IV. 85. See al-Jawâlîḳî’s Livre des locutions vicieuses (ed. Derenbourg in Morgenländ. Forschungen), p. 153.

[200]. Zur vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte, 1 Art. (Ausland 1872), p. 4. See also 1871, p. 1159.