[1121] Sargon Annals, I. 156. Jensen's interpretation of the passage (Kosmologie, p. 231) is forced, as is also his explanation of IIR. 51, 11a, where a mountain Aralû is clearly designated.

[1122] Kosmologie, pp. 222-224.

[1123] Gunkel's Schöpfung und Chaos, p. 154, note 5.

[1124] In an article on 'Shuâlu' published in the American Journal of Semitic Languages (xiv.), I have set forth my reasons for accepting this word as a Babylonian term for the nether world.

[1125] In the later portions of the Old Testament, the use of Sheol is also avoided. See the passages in Schwally, Das Leben nach dem Tode nach den Vorstellungen des Alten Israels, pp. 59, 60.

[1126] Not 'Ort der Entscheidung,' as Jeremias, ib. p. 109, proposes.

[1127] See above, p. [329].

[1128] I Sam. xxviii. 11.

[1129] See p. [511].

[1130] See Schwally, ib. pp. 59-63.