35(5 HAUPT— THE BURNING BUSH [Ap"i 23, 



woman, i. e., the negress.* Afterwards this tradition was trans- 

 ferred to Joseph (Genesis, xH., 45). 



Moses is not a proper name, but a title meaning Deliverer. He 

 was an Edomite, but the son-in-law of an Egyptian priest of Helio- 

 polis, near the western end of Goshen where the Edomite ancestors 

 of the Jews lived before the Exodus. According to Acts vii., 22, 

 ]\Ioses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. 



If we bear this in mind, we can appreciate the remarkable state- 

 ment in Deuteronomy, xxiii., 8 (which was written about 690 b. c.) : 

 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother ; thou shalt 

 not abhor an Egyptian, for thou wast a stranger in his land. The 

 children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation 

 of Jhvh in their third generation. 



The Edomites were not enemies of their brethren in Jerusalem 

 at the time of Nebuchadnezzar (about 586 b. c.) but they were 

 unfriendly disposed toward the Jews at the time of Judas Mac- 

 cabseus (about 164 b. c). Both Moses and David were Edomites. 

 Moses established the Jewish religion, David founded the kingdom 

 of Judah. Moses corresponds to Mohammed, David to Omar. The 

 Levites were Edomite priests. According to Exodus, ii., i, Moses's 

 father belonged to a priestly family {beth lezvt) and Moses's mother 

 was the daughter of a priest {hath lezvt). ^ 



Jewish monotheism is derived from Egypt. Monotheism can 

 have originated only in a highly civilized country as a reaction 

 against excessive polytheism. About 1350 b. c. Amenophis IV. of 

 Egypt endeavored to supersede the old polytheistic religion by the 



■* Compare Jeremiah, xiii., 23 and my paper The Aryan Ancestry of Jesus 

 (Chicago, 1909) page g^^Tlie Open Court (April, 1909) page 201. The 

 admixture of African blood in the Semitic race may be tested by the 

 new sero-diagnostic methods (based on deviation of the complement — 

 whereby the phenomenon of haemolysis is inhibited) which were discussed 

 by H. Sachs at the 39*'' congress of German anthropologists, held at Frank- 

 fort, Aug. 4, 1908. Compare Max Seber, Modcrne Blntforschimg und 

 Abstammungslehrc (Frankfurt am Main, 1909) page 44. See also, below, 

 page 365, note 44. 



°A lezvi (for lazm) is a viorcJi; Arab, aliva is equivalent to Heb. horah. 

 In Exodus, iv., 14; Judges, xvii., 7 Iczvt evidently means priest. For cth 

 before hath Icwi see Haupt, The Book of Esther (Chicago, 1908) page 

 18, line 6. 



