had, and yet have retained, or revived, as pure a worship of the 

 Most High God as Abram offered. The name of Ba'al- 

 zebul, lord of the height, like Ba'al-ram, is a most fit title for 

 the Most High God, but these and other sublime names were 

 debased to hell by the " many inventions " of pantheism, and 

 polytheism, and what has been called by Professor Max Mu'ller 

 ( ' henotheism." Names compounded with Tob, Zedek, and 

 the like, remind us of Mr. Budge's remark that there were 

 temples erected in Babylonia to abstract qualities,* which are 

 mentioned in fragments of cylinders of Nebuchadnezzar. 

 Zidqa is the name of a king of Sidon in the records of 

 Sennakherib. 



Other names are derived from those of gods with an addi- 

 tion of i, as in patronymic cr gentilic names; as Barzillai from 

 Barzil a title of Ninip an Assyrian god. Under this head 

 I think Sheshai and Taltnai', two of the " sons of Anak/' 

 come. The former seems connected with Sheshan, and 

 Shesh-bazzar, the numeral shesh (six) lying at the root, as a 

 symbol of a god. It symbolized the god Bin or Eamanu. 

 Ba'al Shalisha indicates three. I have elsewhere traced 

 " Arba " (four) in connexion with Kiriath-Arba' and other 

 places, f 



Sheba (seven) appears in Bath-sheba and other names, and 

 may be connected with the god Sbat, and the Seb of the 

 Egyptians. And Eshmun, (eight) the eighth of the Kabirim, 

 is well-known. But these remarks on numerical symbols are 

 parenthetic and illustrative of SheshaV. 



In like manner Besai seems clearly to indicate the god Bes, 

 or Besa, of Arabian origin, of whom the Egyptians were so 

 fond, his deformed visage being associated with articles of the 

 toilet. 



Brugsch has very naturally connected with him the feminine 

 Beset (or Bast) whose name appears in Pi-beseth (Bubastis) 

 in Lower Egypt. 



I have often thought that the familiar play on the word 

 bosheth (which in the Hebrew means " shame ") in connexion 

 with Ba'al- worship may have some allusion to this goddess of 

 eastern origin. 



Sippai' (or Sapi), '3D, and Saph or Sap, so, equally recal 

 Sap, the god of the Eastern borders of Egypt. And Beba'i 

 seems clearly enough derived from Beb, a Typhonic name well- 



* Ch. Sunday Sch. Mag., 1880, 244. 



t Trans. Viet. Inst. t 1877 : Studies on the Times of Abraham. 



