anite
non-Yahwistic worship. The same thing is true of the sacred
wooden post (the _ashera_) that stood by shrines; Deut. xvi,
21 f., etc.
[730] Roscher, _Lexikon_, s.v. _Priapos._ Diodorus Siculus,
iv, 6, mentions also Ithyphallos and Tychon.
[731] Roscher, _Lexikon_.
[732] S. Seligmann, _Der boese Bueck und Verwandtes_, ii, 191
ff.
[733] Diodorus Siculus, i, 88.
[734] Roscher, _Lexikon_, s.v. _Indigitamenta_. _Muto_ is
'phallos.'
[735] So Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, iv, II, 34 al.
[736] S. Seligmann, _Der boese Blick und Verwandtes_, ii, 196
ff.
[737] Cf. Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 490, n. 4.
[738] On the yoni as amulet see Seligmann, _Der boese Blick
und Verwandtes_, ii, 203.
[739] Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, ii,
491 f., and the references there to Gait's _Assam_ and other
works.
[740] III Rawlinson, pl. i, no. 12155, and IV Rawlinson,
col. 2, II. 25-28. The androgynous sense is maintained by
G. A. Barton, in _Journal Of the American Oriental Society_,
xxi, second half, p. 185 ff. Other renderings of the first
inscription are given by Thureau-Dangin in _Revue
d'Assyriologie_, iv, and Radau, _Early Babylonian History_,
p. 125.
[741] Text in Craig, _Assyrian and Babylonian Religious
Texts_, i, pl. vii, obv. 6, and by Meek, in _American
Journal of Semitic Languages_, xxvi; translation in
Jastrow's _Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens_, i, 544 f.,
and discussion by him in article "The 'Bearded' Venus" in
_Revue archeologique_, 1911, i.
[742] See for Lenormant's view _Gazette archeologique_, 1876
and 1879, and Jastrow's criticism in the article cited in
the preceding note.
[743] Lajard, _Recherches sur le culte de Venus_. He is
followed by A. Jeremias, _The Old Testament in the Light of
the Ancient East_ (Eng. tr.), i, 123.
[744] _Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum_, l, i, p. 13.
[745] 1 Sam. xii, 28; Deut. xxviii, 10. The angel in whom is
Yahweh's name (Ex. xxiii, 21) has the authority of the
deity.
[746] Cf. Dillmann, in _Monatsbericht der Akademie der
Wissenschaften_ (Berlin, 1881). The feminine form given to
Baal in Rom. xi, 3 f., may refer to the disparaging term
'shame' (Heb. _boshet_, for which the Greek would be
_aischun[=e]_) often substituted by the late editors of the
Old Testament for Baal. Saul's son Ishbaal ('man of Baal')
is called Ish
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