[182] Genesis, p. 329 (1901).
[183] See, further, von Gall, Altisraelitische Kultstätten, pp. 148 ff. (1898).
[184] The word is also used for limping, or stumbling, in a figurative sense (Jer. xx. 10 and elsewhere; in Job xviii. 12, Ball would read balaʿ). According to Driver the cognate Arabic word means “to curve” (Oxford Hebr. Lex.); one thinks of the bent or curved position of the body during the performance of the “limping” dance.
[185] See the various works of Schrader, Winckler, Zimmern, Jensen, O. Weber, Jastrow, etc.
[186] See, e.g., Wiedemann, Die Religion der alten Aegypter, pp. 85-87 (1890); Erman, Die ägyptische Religion, pp. 61 f., 90 (1909), and the works of other authorities mentioned in previous chapters.
[187] Eastern Customs in Bible Lands, pp. 207-210 (1894); a good account of the Dancing Dervishes is given in W. Tyndale’s An Artist in Egypt, pp. 26-30 (1912); and see especially Gressmann, Palestinas Erdgeruch in der Israelitischen Religion, pp. 34 ff. (1909).
[188] See Herodotus, II. 133.
[189] The Prophets of Israel, p. 392 (1897); cp. Stade, Geschichte des Volkes Israel, I. 477 (1886).
[190] Snouck-Hurgronje, Mekka, II. 281 (1888-1889). And see, further, Doughty, Arabia Deserta, II. 119 (orig. ed.); Robinson Lees mentions this dancing as taking place at holy places in Palestine, Village Life in Palestine, pp. 27, 28 (1897).
[191] See Golénischeff, Recueil de Travaux, XXI. 22 f.; Gressmann, Altorientalische Texte und Bilder zum A.T., I. 225 ff. (1909).