The religion of Babylonia and Assyria especially in its relations to Israel . e caused to shine forth, to him con-fided the appointed him a being of the night, to determine the days;Every month, without ceasing, like a crown he made him, saying,15 At the beginning of the month, when thou shinest on the landThou shalt show the horns, to determine six days,And on the seventh day thou shalt divide the crown in the fourteenth day, thou shalt reach the half . . The rest of the tablet is too broken to be intel- i The word lumashi in the astronomical texts designates a series ofseven
The religion of Babylonia and Assyria especially in its relations to Israel . e caused to shine forth, to him con-fided the appointed him a being of the night, to determine the days;Every month, without ceasing, like a crown he made him, saying,15 At the beginning of the month, when thou shinest on the landThou shalt show the horns, to determine six days,And on the seventh day thou shalt divide the crown in the fourteenth day, thou shalt reach the half . . The rest of the tablet is too broken to be intel- i The word lumashi in the astronomical texts designates a series ofseven stars. There is a very pretty controversy as to the meaning andidentification of these stars. Oppert translates spheres; Sayce, twinstars, literally, twin oxen, and explains that seven of them werereckoned. Zimmern says that they were not identical with the signsof the Zodiac. Delitzsch does not commit himself, and King translatesZodiac. Jeremias in Das Alte Testament im Lichte des alien Orients,p. 27, translates it Tierkreisbilder, while in his later brochure (Das Alter. Obverse
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