A critical and exegetical commentary on Genesis

INDEXES.

I. ENGLISH.

Abel, 103 ff.

’Ābēl Miẓraim, 538.

’Abîda‛, 351.

‛Abîmā’ēl, 221.

Abimelech, 316 ff., 325 ff., 363 ff.

Abî-râmu, 292.

Abraham,

his religious significance, xxvi f.;

his migration, xxi, xxvii f., 238, 242 ff.;

as Mahdi, xxviii, 247;

legend of, xliv, 241 f.;

covenants with, 276 ff., 289 ff.;

name of, 244, 292 f.;

death of, 341, 351 f.

Abram, name, xxv, 292.

Abram, Field of, xxv, 244.

Accusative,

of condition, 77, 282, 474.

of definition, 29.

after passive, 220.

of place, 376.

of time, 260.

‛Ādāh, 118, 429 f.

Adapa and the South-wind, myth of, 92.

’Adbe’ēl, 353.

‛Adullām, 450.

Aetiological motive in myth and legend, xi f., 70, 95, 140, 332, 362.

Agriculture, 84, 87, 106, 110, 185, 365.

’Aḥuzzath, 367.

‛Ai, 247.

‛Aḳān, 434.

‛Akbôr, 436.

’Akkad, 210.

’Almôdād, 221.

‛Amālēḳ, 263, 431.

Amorite, 215, 263, 265, 282, 503.

’Amrāphel, 257.

Anachronisms, v, xviii, 116, 149, 265, 272, 316, 364, 419, 463.

‛Anāmîm, 212.

Angel of God, 323, 342, 376.

Angel of Yahwe, 286 f.

Angels, 31, 36, 141 f.

Anthropomorphism, instances of, 7, 37, 51, 129, 149, 154, 172, 300, 328, 411.

‛Apriw, xvi, 218 f.

’Arām, 206, 333 f.

’Aram-naharaim, 342.

Aramæans, xxiii, 334, 356, 358, 403 f.

’Ărān (’Oren), 434.

Araraṭ, 166.

Archaisms, 29, 272, 306, 399.

’Ariōk, 258.

‛Arḳî, 216.

’Arpakshad, 205, 231.

Article, anomalous pointing of, 163.

Article, with construct, 348, 395.

’Arvād, 216.

’Āsenath, 471.

Asher, xviii, 388, 528.

’Ashkenaz, 197.

‛Ashterôth-Ḳarnaim, 260, 262.

’Āshûr, 351, 354.

’Asshûr, 211, 350.

’Asshûrîm, 350.

‛Avîth, 435.

Ayyāh, 434.

Ba‛al Ḥānān, 436.

Babel, 210, 227.

Babel-legends, 228 f.

Bāsemath, 430.

Bdellium, 60.

“Bear upon knees,” 386.

Beena marriage, 70, 384.

Bĕ’ēr Lahay Rōî, 288, 347 f., 352.

Beersheba, 325 ff., 331, 366 f., 491.

Beker, 494.

Bela‛, 259, 435.

Benjamin, 426, 534.

Ben-’ônî, 426.

Bered, 288.

Berossus (quoted), 41 f., 132, 137.

Bethel, 247, 377 ff., 423 ff., 446.

Bethû’ēl, 333.

Betyl, 380.

Bilhāh, 386.

Bilhān, 434.

Blessing, 38, 498.

Blessing of Jacob, 507 ff.;

Monographs on, 512.

Blood, crying for vengeance, 170, 447, 477.

Blood-revenge, 110, 112 ff., 374.

Books, “traditional,” xxx, 509, 511.

Boẓrāh, 435.

Bûz, 333.

Cain, 100, 102, 121 f.

Cain-legend, origin of, 111 ff.

Camel, 249 f., 345.

Canaan, 182 ff., 187, 201, 245.

Case-endings (old), 29, 117 f., 267, 399, 524.

Chaldæans, 237, 333.

Chaos, 14, 16, 19, 43, 46.

Chedorla‛omer, 258.

Cherubim, 89 f.

Chronology, xiv f., 134 ff., 167 f., 233 f.

Circumcision, 296 f., 420.

Cities of the Plain, destruction of the, 310 ff.

Cohortative form with vav consecutive, 405.

Concubine-slave, xvii, 285.

Cosmogonies, 6 ff., 18;

Babylonian, ix, 20, 41 ff.;

Etruscan, 50;

Indian, 46;

Persian, 19, 50;

Phœnician, 46, 48 ff.

Covenants,

divine, 171  ff., 280  ff., 290  ff.;

human, 325  ff., 367 f., 400  ff.;

-feast, 367, 401;

idea of, 283 f., 297 f.;

sign of, 172, 294, 297.

“Covering of the Eyes,” 319.

Cult-legends, xi f., lx, 379, 411.

Cup (in divination), 483.

“Cut off” (from people, etc.), 294.

Damascius (quoted), 42.

Dan, 266, 387, 527.

Dead Sea, vii, 252, 264, 273 f.

Debōrāh, 425.

Dedān, 204, 350.

Deluge traditions, 174 ff.;

origin of, 180 f.;

Babylonian, 175  ff.;

Greek, 179 f.;

Indian, 179;

Phœnician, 180;

Phrygian, 180;

Syrian, 180.

Diḳlāh, 221.

Dînāh, 389, 421.

Dinhābāh, 435.

Dioscuri, 302, 312.

Dîsh-ān, -ôn, 434.

Divine Names in Genesis, xxxv ff., xlviii f.

Dôdānim, 199.

Dôthān, 446 f.

Dreams, 316, 376, 394, 397, 445, 460 ff., 465 ff.

Dreams, interpretation of, 461, 466.

Dûmāh, 353.

Eabani (legend of), 91 ff., 517.

Eden, 57.

Eden, site of, 62 ff.

Edom, Edomites, 356, 362, 373, 437.

Egypt, river of, 283.

Egyptian domination in Palestine, xvi, xviii, 538.

Egyptian influence on Joseph-story, 442.

Elam, Elamites, 204 f., 257 ff., 272, 276.

’Êlath (’Êlôth), 262, 436.

’Edā‛āh, 351.

’Eliezer, 279.

’Elîphaz, 431.

’Elîshāh, 198.

Elohistic source,

of Genesis, xxxvi ff.;

characteristics of style, etc., xlvii ff.;

age of, lii ff.

’Ēlôn, 494.

Ēl-Pārān, 261.

Embalming, 537.

’Ēmîm, 263.

Enoch-legend, 132.

’Enôsh, 126.

Enuma elǐs, 9, 43 ff.

Envy of the Gods, 75, 87, 94, 229.

‛Êphāh, 351.

‛Ēpher, 351.

Ephraim, 471, 504, 530, 540.

’Ephrāth, 426.

Eponyms, xx f., xxv, 189 f., 265.

Erech, 210.

Esau, 359 ff., 405 ff., 428 ff.

‛Eseḳ, 366.

Ethnographic idea in legend, xii, xix ff., 186, 356, 403, 411 f., 427, 450.

Etymological motive in legends, xiii, 220.

Eudemos (quoted), 49.

Euhemerism, 147.

Eve, 86, 102;

and the Serpent, 85 f.

See חַוָּה.

Exodus, date of, xv.

Family,

genealogical division of, 194;

patriarchal type of, 189;

religious solidarity of, 152.

Fig leaves, 76, 93.

Firmament, 21 f.

Five (occurrence of numbers in matters Egyptian), 483.

Flood. See Deluge.

Flood-narrative analysed, 147 ff.

Fragmentary hypothesis, xxxii, xxxvii.

Gad, 387, 528.

Gaḥam, 334.

Gematria, 266.

Genealogies, artificial character of, 231.

Genealogy,

Cainite, 98;

Sethite, 99 f.;

relation of Cainite and Sethite, 138 f.;

Edomite, 428 ff.;

Shemite, 231;

of Ishmael, 352 f.;

of Ḳeturah, 350;

of Nāḥôr, 332 ff.;

of Teraḥ, 235 ff.

Genesis, Book of.

Title, ii f.

canonical position of, i.

scope of, ii.

nature of tradition in, iii ff., xxxii.

structure and composition of, xxxii ff.

ruling idea of, xxxiii.

sources of, xxxiv ff.

Gera, 494.

Gerār, 217, 315, 325, 364, 366.

Gîḥôn, 61.

Gilead, 402 f.

Gilgameš Epic, 91, 175  ff., 209, 517.

Girgashite, 216.

Golden age, 35, 73, 87, 92, 159.

Gōmer, 196.

Good and evil, knowledge of, 95.

Gōren hā-’Āṭād, 538.

Goshen, 488, 495, 497 f.

Granaries (State), 472.

Ḫabiri, xvi, xxii, 187, 218, 265.

Hadôrām, 221.

Haḍramaut, 221.

Hagar, 284 ff., 322 ff.

name, 286.

Haggada, 28, 33, 237, 245.

Hām, 262.

Ḥām, 182, 195.

Ḥamath, 217.

Ḫammurabi, xiv, xxii, xxvii, 257 f., 335.

Ḫammurabi, Code of, xvii, xviii, xix, 285, 454, 455, 459.

Ḥămôr, 416, 421.

Ḥănôk, 117, 351, 493.

Hārān, 236.

Ḥarrān, 238.

Ḥavîlāh, 59, 65, 202.

Ḥaẓeẓôn-Tāmār, 263.

Ḥăzô, 333.

“Head,” to “lift up,” 462 f.

Hebrews, 187, 217, 265, 458, 462 f.

Hesperides, 94.

Ḥeẓrôn, 494.

Ḥiddeḳel, 61.

Historicity of chapter 14, xviii f., 271 ff.

History and legend compared, iii f.

Hittites, xvi, 214 f., 336, 368.

Ḥivvite, 216.

Hobah, 267.

Ḥōrite, 263, 433, 437.

Ḥûl, 206.

Ḥûshām, 435.

Image of God, 31 f.

Immortality, 88, 92, 95, 132.

Imperative,

expressing consequence, 243.

expressing a determination, 476.

Imperfect consecutive,

expressing ‘paradoxical consequence,’ 307.

expressing descriptive, 533.

Incubation, 376.

Infinitive absolute,

used as jussive, 294;

expressing irony, 398;

after its verb, 307.

Infinitive, gerundial, 87.

Intoxication, 183, 482.

‛Irād, 117.

Isaac,

name, 321;

birth of, 321;

sacrifice of, 327 ff.;

marriage of, 339 ff., 358;

death of, 428.

Isaac, Fear of, 399, 402.

Ishmael, 287, 352.

Ishmaelites, 448.

Israel, name, 409 f.

Israel-Stone, Shepherd of, 531.

Issachar, 389, 525 f.

Jābāl, 115, 120.

Jabboḳ, 407.

Jacob,

name, 360;

history of, 355–428;

legends regarding, 356;

as tribal eponym, xxiv, 356 f.;

grave of, 538;

as transjordanic hero, 538.

Jacob, Strong One of, 531.

Japheth, 183 ff., 195, 208.

Javan, 198.

Jerusalem, 268, 328.

Joseph,

name of, 389 f.;

story of, 438–528;

elements in Joseph-legend, 441 f.;

as diviner, 484;

his agrarian policy, 498 ff.;

parallel figures in history, 501 f.;

blessing on, 529  ff.;

death of, 540.

Jûbāl, 120.

Jubilee-periods (Klostermann’s theory of), 233 f.

Judah,

name of, 386, 519;

separation from his brethren, 450 f.;

his leadership in Yahwist, lvi, 443, 495, etc.

Judah, blessing on, 518–525.

Jussive of purpose, 227.

Jussive unapocopated, 22.

Justification by faith, 280.

Ḳādēsh, 262.

Ḳadmonites, 284.

Kalnēh, 210.

Kaphtōrîm, 213.

Kaslûḥîm, 213.

Ḳēdār, 352.

Ḳedēshāh, 454.

Kelaḥ, 211, 354.

Ḳemû’ēl, 333.

Ḳênān, 131.

Ḳenaz, 431.

Ḳenites, 113, 284.

Ḳenizzites, 284.

Ḳeṭurah, 349 f.

Kĕzîb, 451.

Kid, as gift, 453.

Ḳiryath-’Arba‛, 335.

Kittîm, 199.

Ḳôraḥ, 432.

Ḳoran, 140, 166.

Kudur-lagamar, 258 f.

Kûsh, 61, 65, 200, 207.

Lamech, 117, 133;

Song of, 120 ff.;

sons of, 120, 123.

Land-tenure in Egypt, 501.

Leah, 383, 385, 387 ff., 420, 493 f., 516.

Legend, idealisation of, xiii.

Legendary aspects of Genesis, v ff.

Lehābîm, 213.

Leṭûshîm, 351.

Levi, 386, 420, 518.

Levirate marriage, 452.

Libation, 424.

Literal minuscule, 40.

Liver, as seat of mental affection, 517.

Loṭ, 236.

Lôṭān, 313, 433.

Lûd, Lûdîm, 206, 212.

Lûz, 378 f.

Ma‛akāh, 334.

Mādai, 197.

Magic, 96.

Māgôg, 197.

Mahălal’ēl, 131.

Maḥanaim, 405.

Mākîr, 540.

Makpēlāh, 337 f.

Mamre, 254, 265.

Mānaḥath, 432 f.

Manasseh, 471, 504, 540.

Marduk, 209 f.

Mash, 207.

Masrēḳāh, 435.

Massā, 353.

Matriarchate, 102, 344.

Maẓẓēbāh, l, 378 f., 401, 416, 424.

Medān, 350.

Media, Medes, 197.

Mehêṭab’ēl, 436.

Melkiẓedeḳ, 267 ff.

Meshech, 199.

Messianic applications, 79 ff., 185 f., 521 ff.

Methuselah, 132 f.

Mibsām, 353.

Mibẓār, 436.

Midian, Midianites, 350, 448.

Mishmā‛, 353.

Miẓpāh, 401 ff.

Miẓraim, 201, 285.

Mizzāh, 431.

Mōchos (quoted), 49.

Mōhar, xviii, 319, 346, 383 f., 395, 419.

Monotheism, ix, 6, 25, 48, 72, 178, 269, 301.

Môreh, 245 f.

Moriah, land of, 328 f.

Mourning rites, 335, 374, 449, 537.

Muṣri-theory, 201, 249, 285, 472.

Myth and legend distinguished, viii f., xxv.

Na‛amāh, 120.

Naḥôr, 232.

Names, 68;

popular etymology of, xiii f.;

naming of child by mother, 105 f., 314, 385;

naming of child by father, 296;

person and name, 127;

proper noun compounded with participle, 131.

Nāphîsh, 353.

Naphtali, 387, 527 f.

Naphtûḥîm, 213.

Nebāyôth, 352.

Negeb, 248.

Nephîlîm, 140, 145 f.

Nile, 465.

Nimrod, 207.

Nineveh, 211.

Noah, 133, 151  ff., 174, 181 ff., 195.

Nod, 111.

Nomadic life, 111.

Numbers (sacred), 8, 39, 98, 326, 483.

Oath, 345.

Oath, by genital organs, 341.

Oath, by king’s life, 476.

‛Ôbāl, 221.

’Oholîbāmah, 430.

Olive, 156.

’Ôn, 470.

Ônām, 434.

Ophir, 222.

Oratio obliqua without כִּי, 248.

Paddan Aram, lxiv, 358, 425.

Paradise. See Eden.

Paradise Legend, origin and significance of, 90 ff.

Pārān, 324.

Parenthesis, 14, 34.

Passive of Qal, 345.

Pathrûsîm, 213.

Patriarchal tradition,

background of, xiv ff.;

local centre of, lv.

Patriarchs,

as individuals, xxiii ff.;

as deities, xxiv f.;

as eponymous ancestors, xx f.

Peleg, 220, 232.

Peniel, 410 ff.

Pĕ‛ô, 436.

Peoples, Table of, 187 ff.

Pereẓ, 456.

Perfect,

of certainty, 172, 462;

of confidence, 388.

of experience, 120, 517.

of instant action, 172, 337;

modal use of, 321;

with sense of pluperfect, 283.

Philistines, 213, 327, 363 ff.

Philo Byblius (quoted), 48, 66, 105, 123 f.

Pîkōl, 325.

Pildāsh, 333.

Pîshôn, 59.

Pithom, 488, 495.

Plural,

of eminence, 318, 396;

of species, 321.

Polytheism, traces of, 160, 303, 318, 424, 491.

Potiphar, 457, 471.

Prayer, 305, 358 f., 406.

Priestly code,

in Genesis, lvii ff.;

chronology of, 135;

characteristics of, lx ff.;

literary style of, lxii ff., 11, 149;

geographical horizon of, 191 ff.

Prophet, li, 317.

Prophetic guilds, xxxi.

Protevangelium, 81, 97.

Puncta extraordinaria, 413, 446.

Punic Tabella devotionis, 85.

Pûṭ, 201.

Rachel, 383, 386, 388 f., 426 f., 504 f.;

grave of, 426.

Rainbow in mythology, 172 f.

Ra‛māh, 203.

Ra‛mses, land of, 498.

Reclining at table, 300.

Reḥôbôth, 366, 436.

Resen, 211.

Re‛u, 232.

Re‘û’ēl, 431.

Reuben, 386, 388, 427, 515.

Re’ûmāh, 333.

Rîphath, 197.

Sabæans, 203, 350.

Sabbath, 35 f., 38 f.

Sabtāh, 202.

Sabtekāh, 203.

Sacrifice, 105, 157;

child and animal, 331 f.;

essence of, 330;

patriarchal, l, lx, 491.

Salem, 268.

Sanchuniathon (quoted), 48, 71 f., 123, 140.

Sanctuaries,

origin of, xii, 246;

as repositories of tradition, xxxi, 415.

Sarah, 237, 248 ff., 284 ff., 295, 300 ff., 315 ff., 335.

Seba, 202.

‘Seed of woman,’ 80 ff.

Sē‛îr, 262, 360, 412, 414, 430, 437.

Serpent, in Paradise, 72 f., 93 f.;

Serpent-worship, 81.

Serûg, 232.

Sēth, 125 f., 131, 139.

Shammāh, 431.

Sheba, 202, 203, 222, 350.

Shechem, 246, 421, 507.

Shēlāh, 451, 524.

Sheleph, 221.

Shēm, 195, 269.

Shemites, 217 ff., 231 ff.

Sheôl, 352, 449.

Shepherd, ideal, 398.

Shiloh, xxxi, 522 f.

Shin‛ār, 210, 225.

Shôbāl, 433.

“Short stories” of Genesis, xxviii f.

Shûaḥ, 350.

Shûr, 286, 315 f., 353 f.

Siddim, 260.

Signet-ring, 454, 469.

Simeon, 386, 420, 518.

Sin, 97, 129, 317.

Sînite, 216.

Sinuhe, Tale of, xvi, xvii.

Siṭnāh, 366.

“Sons of God,” 141 f.

“Speak over the heart,” 419.

Spirit of God, 17 f., 469.

Stone-worship, 380, 531.

Story-tellers, professional, xxxi.

Sukkôth, 415.

Supplementary Hypothesis, xxxii, xxxvii.

Taboos, 66, 398, 410, 454.

“Tale of the two brothers,” 69, 459.

Tāmār, 451.

Tarshîsh, 198.

Ṭebaḥ, 334.

Tel-Amarna Tablets, 92, 187, 201, 413, 501 f.

Têmā, 353.

Têmān, 431.

Teraḥ, 232.

Teraphim, 396, 423.

Tid’al, 259.

Tiḳḳûnê Sōpherîm, 304, 345.

Timna‛, 433.

Timnāh, 453.

Tîrās, 199.

Tithe, 379.

Tōgarmāh, 197.

Tôla‛, 494.

Tôledôth, xxxiii f., 39 ff., 174, 231, 358, 428;

Book of, 40, 130, 236, 428 f., 443.

Totem clan-names, 232, 383, 386.

Tradition, historical value of, vii, xiii ff.

Tree,

of Life, 88, 90, 94;

of Knowledge of Good and Evil, 94 f.

Tûbal, 120, 199.

Tubal-Cain, 115, 119 f.

Twin-births, xvii, 103, 359.

Ur, 229, 236.

Usōos, xi, 124, 360.

‛Uẓ, 206, 333.

’Ûzāl, 221.

Vav consecutive in subordinate clause, 369.

Veil, 348, 454.

Volkssage, iv.

Vow, 378 f.

Women (no religious standing in Old Testament), 169.

Word of God, 7.

Word of Jahwe, 277 f.

‘World-egg,’ 18, 49 f.

Ya‛aḳōb-ēl, xvi, xviii, 360, 390.

Yahwistic source, xxxiv ff.;

a composite work, xliv ff., 1 ff., 240 f.;

characteristics of, xlvii ff.;

date of, lii ff.;

place of origin, lv.

Ya‛lam, 432.

Yanḫamu, 441, 501 f.

Ye‛îsh, Ye‛ûsh, 431.

Yeraḥ, 221.

Yered, 131.

Yĕṭûr, 353.

Yidlāph, 333.

Yishbaḳ, 350.

Yiskāh, 238.

Yithrān, 434.

Yôb, 494.

Yôbāb, 222, 435.

Yoḳṭān, 220.

Yôseph-ēl, xvi, 389.

Zebulun, 389, 525 f.

Ẓemārî, 217.

Zeraḥ, 431, 456.

Ẓib‛ôn, 434.

Ẓîdôn, 215, 525.

Zikkurat, 226, 228 f., 377, 380.

Ẓillāh, 118.

Zimrān, 350.

Ẓôar, 252 f., 257, 309.

Zodiac, signs of, 22, 26, 44, 65, 90, 133, 146, 181.

Zodiacal theory of the tribes, 445, 517, 530, 534 f.

Ẓōhar, 494.

Zûzîm, 263.