. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . s by error f Ashtaroth—the plural form, which, more-over, with a genitive following, would become Ashteroth, as it is in Gen. xiv. 5. 2 QS. 03. 226 (illustration), 2-27. Vincent, p. 164. 3 QS. 03. 228 (illustration). Cf. the similarly shaped projections on an Astartefound by Sellin at Taanach (see the Plate opposite). Pere Vincent, however,doubts (p. 104, note) whether in this case the projections represent horns ; hethinks that they rather represent long curls. 4 See Hastingss Diet, of the Bible, i. 107a. c See G. F. Moore in the Enc. Bibl. i. 335


. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . s by error f Ashtaroth—the plural form, which, more-over, with a genitive following, would become Ashteroth, as it is in Gen. xiv. 5. 2 QS. 03. 226 (illustration), 2-27. Vincent, p. 164. 3 QS. 03. 228 (illustration). Cf. the similarly shaped projections on an Astartefound by Sellin at Taanach (see the Plate opposite). Pere Vincent, however,doubts (p. 104, note) whether in this case the projections represent horns ; hethinks that they rather represent long curls. 4 See Hastingss Diet, of the Bible, i. 107a. c See G. F. Moore in the Enc. Bibl. i. 335 with note 3, 330 note 3 ; or, morefully, in the American Journal of Biblical Literature, xvi. (18U7), p. 157, wherelie compares the Punic Baal-Karnain, i. e. Baal of the two horns or peaks,so called because his sanctuary (near Carthage) lav on a mountain formed bytwo very sharp peaks, separated by a deep gorge. fl See more fully Vincent, pp. 159-65 (with illustrations). 7 See the writers article in Hastingss Diet, of the Bible, i. Possible Horned Astahte fhom Gezeb From Side-Lights fri>m i/>. 96cf. Quarterly Statement, L903, p. ?26 .


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