The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . Assijriologie, vol. vi. pp. 245-263) andthe character of its early kings have determined Say ce to pronounce Melcliizedek to be an historical per-sonage (TAe Higher Criticism and the Monuments, pp. 174-178, and Patriarchal Palestine, p. 71, et seq.). Geif. xiii. 1-13. Lot has been sometimes connected of late with the people called on the Egyptianmonuments Rotanu, or Lotanu, whom we shall have occasion to mention frequently further on : heis supposed to have been their eponymous hero (Ren., Histoire du Peuple Hebreu, vol. i. pp. 12,115).
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . Assijriologie, vol. vi. pp. 245-263) andthe character of its early kings have determined Say ce to pronounce Melcliizedek to be an historical per-sonage (TAe Higher Criticism and the Monuments, pp. 174-178, and Patriarchal Palestine, p. 71, et seq.). Geif. xiii. 1-13. Lot has been sometimes connected of late with the people called on the Egyptianmonuments Rotanu, or Lotanu, whom we shall have occasion to mention frequently further on : heis supposed to have been their eponymous hero (Ren., Histoire du Peuple Hebreu, vol. i. pp. 12,115).Lotan, which is the name of an Edomite clan (^Gen. xxxvi. 20, 29), is a racial adjective, derived fromLot (Stade, Gesehichte des Volkes Israels, vol. i. pp. 118, 119). * Gen. xii. 9-20, xiii. 1. Abrahams visit to Egypt reproduces the principal events of that ofJacob (Reuss, LHistoire Sainte et la Loi, vol. i. p. 342, note 5). Gen. xiii. 18, xxiii. (Elohistic narrative). The tombs of the patriarchs are believed by the ABRAHAM TX THE LAXD OF CANAAN. (i7. THE TRADITIONAL OAK OF ABRAHAM AT HEBKON became from henceforward his favourite dwelliug-place, and he was residingthere when the Elamites invaded the valley of Siddim,- and carriedoff Lot among their prisoners. Abraham set out in pursuit of them, andsucceeded in delivering his nephew/ God (Jahveh) not only favoured him onevery occasion, but expressed His will to extend over Abrahams descendantsHis sheltering protection. He made a covenant with him, enjoining the useon the occasion of the mysterious rites employed among the nations when effect-ing a treaty of peace. Abraham offered up as victims a heifer, a goat, and athree-year-old ram, together with a turtle-dove and a young pigeon ; he cutthe animals into pieces, and piling them in two heaps, waited till the evening. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abraham ; and lo, anhorror of great darkness fell upon him, and a voice from on high said to him : Know of
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