oG REMABKS ON THE FOEEGOING PAPKR. 



Yahii}, which Moses transformed to Yahve (the Creator), so fllliiig 

 the old heathenish word for Heaven (or Ea) with new substance, 

 and giving it a new theological meaning instead of the old mytho- 

 logical. This seems the more probable, as even with the Assyrians 

 (according to the instances given by Mr. Pinches) the word 

 '^*~] It It ^^^^ f'-Jso the general meaning of "god" in a half mono- 

 theistical sense. 



Concluding, I should like to remark that the goddess '-*~^ ^\ 

 1^*~ ]*~ is not to be transcribed Shu-gid-la (Pinches), bat 8hu-si.l-h,. 

 Sometimes this deity is male, but then in the older form »->^y ^yy 

 ^"TTT i^^ ^?Y ^*")> K.u-sirra. Shu-silla is the cowsort oi Ishum, 

 Kii-sirra the god Ishum himself, who bears also the name Zariku 

 (comp. for the latter identification Tallqvist, Zeitschr. f. Assyr., 

 VII, p. 275). For lUammish (out of Ishtammish) may be 

 compared Shamash, and for Uteri (out of Ishteri), the Arabic name 

 of the planet Jupiter, al-Muslitart (otherwise >->-y Mush-ta-ri-ln ■=■ 



MusTitart -\- ilu ?) — A^, \ ^dl 1 • • 



1 On the contrary, the Assyrians of the time of Sennacherib wrote the 

 Edomitic name Yahu-rani (Yoram) w-y y^f fyram-mu (Sen. 2, 54), so using 

 their national religious name >->-y y^ y^ for expressing the Hebrev-Edomitic 

 name Fa/m ; comp. Pinches, Froc. >Soc. Bib. Arch., Yo\. YIII (1885-6), 

 p. 28. The transcription MaUk-rammu is wrong, Ya-rammu or A'i-rammu 

 is the only right one, as Mr. Pinches has shown. 



