[55.1] Roscher, Lexikon, iii. p. 268.
[55.2] Vide [chapter i.] pp. [14]-[15].
[56.1] Langdon, Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, p. 127.
[56.2] Schrader, Keilinsch. Bibl., ii. pp. 79, 83.
[56.3] Op. cit., p. xix.
[57.1] Langdon, op. cit., p. 159, n. 18. Compare with this the personification of abstract ideas; the children of Shamash are Justice (Kettu) and Law (Mésaru), and remain impersonal agencies, unlike the Greek Θέμις. A deified Righteousness (sedek) has been inferred from personal names that occur in the Amarna documents; vide Cook, Palestine, p. 93.
[57.2] Vide his article on “Eschmun-Asklepios,” in Orient. Stud. zu Th. Nöldeke am 70ten Geburtstag gewidmet: the proofs are doubtful, but snake-worship in Phoenicia is attested by Sanchuniathon, Eus. Praep. Ev., 1, 10, 46.
[57.3] Cook, Religion of Ancient Palestine, pp. 30-31.
[58.1] Praep. Ev., 1, 10, 31. Glaser, Mittheilungen uber einige Sabaeische Inschriften, p. 3-4, gives reasons for affirming the worship of black bulls in heathen Arabia; but it is not clear in what relation these stood to the high personal divinities.
[58.2] Op. cit., p. 545.