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 ology of 5$32$ 7$11$ 9$28f.$ is not to be got rid of either by wire-drawn arithmetical calculations (Ra. al.), or by the assumption that in the other passages round numbers are used (Tu. De.). The clause is evidently a gloss, introduced apparently for the purpose of making the birth of Arpakšad, rather than the Flood, the commencement of a new era. It fits in admirably with the scheme of the B. of Jub., which gives an integral number of year-weeks from the Creation to the birth of Arp., and from the latter event to the birth of Abraham (see p. 234 below).—12. ] probably the same word which forms a component of (5$21ff.$), and therefore originally a divine name. This need not exclude a tribal or geographical sense, the name of a deity being frequently transferred to his worshippers or their territory. A place Ṣalaḥ or Salaḥ in Mesopotamia is instanced by Knobel (Di.). Others regard it as a descriptive name = 'offshoot' or 'dismissal'; but very improbably.—14. ] see on 10$21$.—16. ] 10$25$. Hommel (l.c.) combines the two names and takes the compound as a notice of Shelaḥ's birthplace: 'Shelaḥ from Eber-peleg' = Eber-hannāhār, the region W of the lower Euphrates (see pp. 218, 220 above).—18. ] unknown; certainly not (Edessa). It is possibly abbreviated from (36$4$, Ex. 2$18$ etc.: so Homm.); and Mez considers it a divine name. An Aramæan tribe Ru'ua is frequently mentioned in Assyr. inscrs. as dwellers on the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris, in or near Babylonia (Del. Par. 238 ff.).—20. ] a well-known city and district about half-way between Carchemish and Ḥarran, mentioned by Syr. and Arab. writers under the name Saruǧ. The name (Saruǧi) also occurs several times in the census of the district round Ḥarran (7th cent. B.C.), published by Johns under the title of An Assyrian Domesday Book: see pp. 29, 30, 43, 48, 68.—22. ] is in J the brother of Abraham (22$20$; cf. Jos. 24$2$); in P he is both the grandfather and the brother (11$26$). The name must have been that of an important Aramæan tribe settled in or around Ḥarran (27$43$ 28$10$ 29$4$). Johns compares the place-name Til-Naḥiri in the neighbourhood of Saruǧi; also the personal names Naḥirî and Naḥarâu found in Assyrian Deeds (l.c. 71; Ass. Deeds, iii. 127; cf. KAT$3$, 477 f.). As a divine name is mentioned along with other Aramæan deities on a Greek inscription from Carthage (KAT$3$, 477); and Jen. (ZA, xi. 300) has called attention to the theophorous name in the 'Doctrine of Addai,' as possibly a corruption of .—24. ] is instanced by Rob. Sm. as a totem clan-name; (?) being the Syr. and turâḥû the Ass. word for 'wild goat.' Similarly Del. (Prol. 80), who also refers tentatively to Til-ša-*turâḥi, the name of a Mesopotamian town in the neighbourhood of Ḥarran. Knobel compares a place Tharrana, S of Edessa (Di.); Jen. (ZA, vi. 70; Hittiter und Armenier, 150 ff. [esp. 154]) is inclined to identify Teraḥ with the Hittite and N Syrian god (or goddess) Tarḫu, , etc. (cf. KAT$1$, 484).—26. S reads 75 instead of 70.