[1187] Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., iii, 39 ff.
[1188] But see below, Sec. 704.
[1189] Baethgen, _Beitraege zur semitischen
Religionsgeschichte_; Wellhausen, _Skissen_, iii, 25;
Noeldeke, in _Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlaendischen
Gesellschaft_, 1886, 1888, and article "Arabs (Ancient)" in
Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_; Pinches,
article "Gad," and Driver, article "Meni," in Hastings,
_Dictionary of the Bible_; Cheyne, article "Fortune" in
_Encyclopaedia Biblica_; Commentaries of Delitzsch, Duhm,
Marti, Skinner, and Box on Isa. lxv, 11.
[1190] Lane, _Arabic-English Lexicon_, s.v. The Old
Testament title "Rock" given to Yahweh (Deut. xxxii, 18,
"the Rock that begat thee") is figurative, but may go back
to a divine rock.
[1191] On the Hebrew place-name (Job i, 1) and perhaps
personal name (Gen. xxxvi, 28) U[s.] (Uz), which seems to be
formally identical with 'Au[d.], see W. R. Smith, _Kinship
and Marriage in Early Arabia_, 1st ed., p. 260 f., and his
_Religion of the Semites_, p. 43; Wellhausen, _Skissen_,
iii; Noeldeke, in _Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlaendischen
Gesellschaft_, xl, 183 f.
[1192] _Maniya_, plural _manay[=a]_.
[1193] Isa. lxv, 11; III Rawlinson, 66.
[1194] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, pp.
420, 428 (the tablets of fate given to Kingu and snatched
from him by Marduk); R. F. Harper, _Assyrian and Babylonian
Literature_, p. 304 f. (Marduk seizes the tablets of fate
from Zu); Ps. cxxxix, 16; Dan. vii, 10; Rev. v, 1, and other
passages.
[1195] As far as the forms are concerned, a concrete sense
for _man[=a]t_, _manu_, _meni_, seems possible; cf. Wright,
_Arabic Grammar_, 2d ed., i, Sec. 231; Barth, _Semitische
Nominalbuedungen_, p. 163 ff.; Delitzsch, _Assyrian Grammar_,
p. 158 ff.
[1196] The etymologies in Gen. xxx, 11 ff. are popular. In
"Baal-Gad" (Josh. xi, 17) _Gad_ may be the name of a place;
cf. Stade, _Geschichte des Volkes Israel_, i, 271, note.
[1197] Erman, _Handbook of Egyptian Religion_, chap. iii.
For a list of other Egyptian gods of abstractions, such as
eternity, life, Joy, see Wiedemann, "Religion of Egypt," in
Hastings, _Dictionary of the Bible_, v, 191.
[1198] Boissier, _La religion romaine_, i, 4 ff.; Wissowa,
_Religion der Roemer_, p. 46 ff.; Usener, _Goetternamen_, p.
364 ff. (cf. Farnell, in _Anthropological Essays presented
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