[603]. De Izraelieten te Mekka, Haarlem 1864, p. 29.
[604]. See my remark in the Zeitschr. d. D. M. G., 1874, XXVIII. 309.
[605]. Palgrave gives an excellent picture of this state, in his Central and Eastern Arabia, I. 34: ‘The Bedouin does not fight for his home, he has none; nor for his country, that is anywhere; nor for his honour, he never heard of it; nor for his religion, he owns and cares for none. His only object in war is ... the desire to get such a one’s horse or camel into his own possession, etc.’
[606]. Josephus, Contra Apionem, I. 14.
[607]. See Duncker, Geschichte des Alterthums, 1874, I. 253.
[608]. In Ezek. XXVII. 17, the wares, the export of which made the Hebrews dependent on the Phenicians, are enumerated in detail.
[609]. Die Vorurtheile über das alte und neue Morgenland, in Abhandl. der königl. Gesellsch. der Wissensch., Gottingen 1872, XVII. 98.
[610]. So e.g. Jas. Fergusson, Rude Stone Monuments, p. 38; Mommsen, History of Rome, 1868, II. 18 et seq.
[611]. Lenormant, Essai sur la propagation de l’Alphabet phénicien dans l’ancien monde, ed. 2, Paris 1875, I. p. 25.
[612]. W.D. Whitney, Language and the Study of Language, London 1867, p. 169; cf. F. von Hellwald, Culturgeschichte, p. 154.