[14] See Driver, Studia Biblica, I. 20.
[15] See Montgomery, Journal of Biblical Literature, xxv. (1906),49-51.
[16] Chronographia, Paris, 1567 (ed. Paris, 1600, p. 79 seq.).
[17] This transcription will be used henceforth.
[18] A-se-itas, a scholastic Latin expression for the quality of existing by oneself.
[19] The critical difficulties of these verses need not be discussed here. See W. R. Arnold, “The Divine Name in Exodus iii. 14,” Journal of Biblical Literature, XXIV. (1905), 107-165.
[20] Cf. also hawwāh, “desire,” Mic. vii. 3; Prov. x. 3.
[21] See [Hebrew Religion].
[22] The divergent Judaean tradition, according to which the forefathers had worshipped Yahweh from time immemorial, may indicate that Judah and the kindred clans had in fact been worshippers of Yahweh before the time of Moses.
[23] The form Yahu, or Yaho, occurs not only in composition, but by itself; see Aramaic Papyri discovered at Assuan, B 4, 6, 11; E 14; J 6. This is doubtless the original of Ἰάω, frequently found in Greek authors and in magical texts as the name of the God of the Jews.