1881.] . ^^^ [Lesley. 



Eliab, Abinadab, Shimma, Nethaneel, Radcli, Ozem, David, with their 

 two sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. 



Of all these names, Azarjah and Zerujah alone contain the Jah (and the 

 very late date of the list makes these suspicious), yet this is the royal line 

 of David, "the man after Jah's own heart," the supposed designer of the 

 temple, and the supposed inventor and establisher of the liturgy of Jah. 



It may be said that the negative argument is of no weight because it 

 proves too much ; for neither does this long list of names exhibit the title 

 of any other deity. In replj^ it may be said : 



1. That the absence of other deity names is not certain until the personal 

 names are investigated in light of the comparative mythology of that day ; 

 and 



2. That several of them do contain the name of the Assyrian and Egyp- 

 tian deity Bel, El (=Ra :) viz. IshmaeZ, Israel, Reue?, Haniul (?), Calcol (?) 

 Jeramee7, Eli&h and Nathanet'L 



Of Hezron's descendants in the line Caleb : Jesher, Shobab, Ardon, Huz, 

 TJri, Bezeleel; in the line of Segub, Jair, Ashur, Tekoa ; in the line of 

 Jeremeel, Ram [Bunah, Oren, Ozem, Ahijah,] Onam [Maaz, Jamin (c- 

 Benjamin), Eker,] Shammai, [Jada, ] Nadab, [Abishur, Ahban, Molid, 

 Seled, ] Appaim, Ishi, Sheshan, [Ahlai, Jether, Jonathan, Peleth, Zaza, ] 

 Attai, Nathan, Zabad, Ephial, Obed, Jehu, Azariali, Helez, Measah, 

 Sisamai, Shallum, Jekamiah, Elishama, extending through 21 genera- 

 tions =600 years, i. e. down to the captivity of the ten tribes — only two 

 have the word Jah, and both are comparatively late, Abijah and Azariah. 



A valuable bit of information for our purpose is given in the following 

 words (1 Chron. ii, 34) "Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And 

 SliesTian had an Egyptian slave, his name Jarha. And Sheshan gave his 

 daughter to his slave Jarha to wife ; and she bare him Attai. And Attai 

 begat Nathan ;" &c., as above. 



Here, if any where, we might find pure Egyptian names ; -ity^ S'e-S'a-N, 

 ;;n-,^ IRHO, ^-^p OTI. 



A most remarkable coincidence in fact occurs. This Sheshan father of 

 Attai corresponds so closely and unexpectedly with the Shesh and Atfa of 

 early Egyptian story, that the reference of one to the other in some unex- 

 plained and perhaps inexplicable way seems inevitable. The Egyptian 

 part of the coincidence is referred to in a recent memoir by Dr. Jacob 

 Krall* "On the composition and fate of Manetho's History;" where, 

 after recounting the evidence of the mythical character of the lists of 

 names of the Kings of the 1st, 2d and 3d dynasties, preceding the 1st 

 King of the Karnak tablet (probably the first really historical King) 

 Snefru (1st of the 4th dynasty of pyramid builders) he goes on to say : — 



"We are moreover in a condition to suggest the origin of these mythi- 

 cal accounts. A series of chapters (of the Ritual) and especially powerful 

 formulae were relegated by the priests to the days of their most ancient 

 Kings. Chapter 130, e. g., to the reign of Husapti (urra^stSrj^) I. Dy. oth 



*Sitzungsberichte der K. AK. der Wiss. Phil. Hist. CI. XCB, Juli 1879, p. 130. 



