Author : Loring Woart Batten
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230455044
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Book Synopsis A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah Volume 11 by : Loring Woart Batten
Download or read book A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah Volume 11 written by Loring Woart Batten and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...(DB.lx) suggested for the first Parlakka or Partukka, towns in Media mentioned by Esarhaddon; in the second he saw Parsua. The desperate state of the case is shown by Mey.; he notes that the root in all three is Bib, "Persia." w, he says, may be prefixed or left off at will in Iranian names; n in the first is a corruption; in (1) and (3) the adj. sf. Ka appeared, so each word is reduced to Pers. (Enl."); thus he gets out of the passage: "the Pers. judges, the Pers., the Erechites, the Bab., and the Susians." Others have made official titles of all the words: "the judges, messengers, tablet-writers, scribes." All these identifications reckon with the single words and forget the context. The passage shows that names of peoples are required in each case. The v. begins with names of two persons and their offices: Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates: then in apposition to the last word we have the catalogue of the races of which the Sam. were composed, which cannot be a mixture of offices and peoples. As part of the names are peoples, they must all be. So v.10 begins and the rest of the peoples. That we cannot identify them merely proves a corruption of the text, or else the transplanting to Sam. of peoples from places as yet quite unknown. The ransacking of every language under heaven to make offices out of this jargon is an unwarranted extravagance of criticism. It is better frankly to confess our ignorance. The writer, having an animus against the Sam., may have sought the most outlandish names he knew.--10. Hudm almost unanimously identified with Assurbanipal (668-626), son and successor of Esarhaddon (v. Schrader identified with Esarhaddon to agree with v....