[1551] See pp. [423] and [629] seq.
[1552] I.e., 'The beginning of the year.' See on this subject Karppe's article, Revue Semitique, ii. 146-151.
[1555] The opinion of many scholars that the Rôsh hash-shanâ dates from the Babylonian exile because not referred to in the Book of Deuteronomy is open to serious objections. The festival has traces of antiquity (like the Day of Atonement), and appears to have been revived during the captivity, under Babylonian influence.
[1556] See especially pp. [484] and [575].
[1557] Ezekiel, viii. 14. There is probably a reference also to the Tammuz festival in Zech, xii. 10, 11. The interpretation offered by Robertson Smith (Religion of the Semites, p. 392, note) for the mourning rites appears strained.
[1558] Over de Israelietische Vastendagen (Amsterdam, 1897, pp. 4-6; 12-17).
[1559] Zeits. f. Assyr. ix. 290 seq.
[1560] See Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, ii. 648 seq.