1909.] AND THE ORIGIN OF JUDAISM. 369 



I believe that the Dehverer was a historical person. But we 

 need not beheve that Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 

 seventy of the elders of Israel saw God (Exodus, xxiv., lo). The 

 author of the Fourth Gospel says (John, i., i8) : No man hath seen 

 God at any time. Deuteronomy, iv., 12, states: The Lord spake 

 unto you out of the midst of the fire ; ye heard the voice of the 

 words, but saw no similitude ; only ye heard a voice. But Jesus told 

 the Jews according to St. John, v., 37 : Ye have neither heard His 

 voice at any time, nor seen His shape. 



only by the modern Suez Canal, the tide extends to the southern end of 

 the Bitter Lakes. The present northern end of the Gulf of Suez is prac- 

 tically dry at low tide. Pi-hahiroth (Exodus, xiv., 2) should be read 

 Pi-hahcritJi, i. e., the mouth {pi) of the canal (ha-herith = Assyr. heritti) 

 connecting Lake Timsah (north of the Bitter Lakes) with the Nile. See 

 my papers on the crossing of the Red Sea and the palm-grove on the Red 

 Sea in Peiser's Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, vol. xii. (Leipzig, 1909) 

 columns 245 and 250. Further details concerning the statements made in 

 the present paper may be found ibid., in my articles on the birth-place of 

 David and Christ ; the ancestors of the Jews ; Hobab, father-in-law ; the 

 name Jhvh (cols. 65, 162, 164, 211) and especially in my paper on Midian 

 and Sinai, pp. 506-530 of vol. Ixiii. (Leipzig, 1909) of the Zeitschrift der 

 Dentschcn M orgcnlandischcn Gesellschaft. 



