Studies in Biblical and Semitic Symbolism by Maurice H. Farbridge

Author:Maurice H. Farbridge [Farbridge, Maurice H.]
Language: eng
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Published: 1923-01-15T00:51:49+00:00

1 Hommel, OLZ., May, 1907, and Jeremias, The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East, Engl. Transi., vol. i, p. 63.

2 Tylor, Primitive Culture, 1903, vol. i, p. 252.

3 A. Oldfield, Tr. Eth. Society of London, vol. iii, p. 291.

4 Pott, Zählmethode, p. 46; also Rue in Tr. Eth. Soc., vol. iv, p. 145. It is of interest to note that Grimm, Geschickte d. Deutschen Sprache, vol. i, par. 239, suggests that all numeral words have their origin in the names of fingers.

5 Gesenius-Kautsch, Hebrew Grammar, 30g.

6 It is of interest to note that “dust” and “ashes” are actually used interchangeably in the Old Testament. See chapter on symbolism of Mourning Customs.

7 The familiar Roman Notation I, II, III, IV, V, VI, etc., suggests quinary counting; whilst the Greek πεμάζειν to count by fives, and a few kindred words hint at a remote antiquity in which the ancestors of the Greeks counted on their fingers and so grouped their units into fives. (Conant, The Number Concepi, p. 168.)

8 Hommel, OLZ., 1907 pp. 225–8.

9 See Die Inschriften von Pergamon, Nos. 333, 339, 587.

10 By A. Sogliano; see the extract in Wochenschrift für klassische philologie, 19 (1902), col. 52.

11 F. Bücheler, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, N.S., lxi, 1906, pp. 307 f.

12 Cf. Hebrew , peace, welfare; and complete, perfect.

13 For further evidence that Pythagoras visited Egypt see Chaignet, Pythagore et la Philosophie Pythagoricienne, vol. i, pp. 40, 48.

14 R. R. Ottley, Isaiah According to the Septuagint, vol. i, p. 221.

15 W. Bacher, Abraham Ibn Ezra als Grammatiker, pp. 9 f.

16 One might compare with this the Shamash Hymn in Babylonian, which is also divided into three divisions:—

May Ea rejoice over thee.

May Damkina, the goddess of the ocean, enlighten thee with her countenance.

May Marduk, the great overseer of the Igigi, raise thy head.

17 We are no doubt justified in regarding the Biblical prohibition in Exod. xx, 4, against making an image of anything “in the heaven above, the earth beneath, or the waters beneath the earth”, as a reference to this triad.

18 Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, 1887, pp. 155, 193.

19 F. X. Kugler, Entwicklung der Babylonischen Planetenkunde.

20 Küchler, Beitr. zur Kenntnis der ass.-bab, Medizin, 42–3.

21 K.B., vi, 1, 365.

22 Zimmern, Beit. Rit. Taf., Nos. 56, 4, 7.

23 Zimmern, Beit. Rit. Taf., No. 11.

24 Maurice, Indian Antiquities, chap. ii of Dissertation at end of vol. iv.

25 A. Barth, Religions of India, translated by Wood, pp. 180–1.

26 PSBA., vol. xxxix. I wish to acknowledge here my indebtedness to Dr. Gaster for his kindness in drawing my attention to this article.

27 See Jüdische Zeitschrift, vol. ii, pp. 108 ff.

28 See Monier-Williams, Sanskr. Dict., and the Appendix to Thompson’s translation of the Bhagavad-Gita sub. “Siddha”.

29 See Stewart, Myths of Plato, pp. 437–45.

30 Prehistoric Man.

31 Many Australian tribes, as well as the bushmen of South Africa, reckon three or anything beyond as “many” (Conant, The Number Concept, p. 28). There is an old English nursery-number rhyme which runs:—

One’s none,

Two’s some,

Three’s many,

Four’s a penny, etc.

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