The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . t frame a veryprobable hypothesis, which should bring themdown as a band of wandering shepherds from themountains of Habesh (Abyssinia), and identifythem with the pastor kings, who, according toManetho, multiplied their bands of the Pharaohs,and being, after some centuries, expelled thenceby the will of the gods, sought refuge in Judea,and built the walls of Jerusalem. Such an ACCAD 33 A
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . t frame a veryprobable hypothesis, which should bring themdown as a band of wandering shepherds from themountains of Habesh (Abyssinia), and identifythem with the pastor kings, who, according toManetho, multiplied their bands of the Pharaohs,and being, after some centuries, expelled thenceby the will of the gods, sought refuge in Judea,and built the walls of Jerusalem. Such an ACCAD 33 ACCHO hypothesis would explain the existence of analmost Israelitish people, and the preservation ofa language so nearly approaching to the Hebrew,in intertropical Africa. It is certainly untrue,and we find no other easy explanation of the factswhich the history of Abyssinia presents, and par-ticularly the early extension of the Jewish religionand customs through that country (PrichardsPhysical History of Man, pp. 279, 280). ACCAD (akkad), (Hcb. 12$, ak-kad, a fortress), the name of one of the four cities in Babyloniamentioned in Genesis (Gen. x:io) as belongingto the kingdom of Nimrod in the country of. Nimrods Hill. Shinar. It was the residence of the first his-torical ruler of all Babylonia, Sargon I, whoseactive reign dates from 3800 B. C., according tothe statement of Nabonidus (555-538 B. C.) aninscription discovered in 1881 on the site ofSippar. With Accad are named Babel, Erechand Calneh. Erech and Babel are well known inlater history, and their sites have not been ruins of Calneh have recently been discover-ed. (See Calneh.) Accad is probably the city whichis known in the early Babylonian inscriptionsunder the name of Agade, or Agadi, which is onthe Euphrates, north of Babylon. Rawlinsonplaces it at Aker-Kuf, 10 miles west by northof Bagdad. Delitzsch conjectures that it mayhave been one of the two cities which bore thename of Sepharvaim, but McCurdy locates t
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