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Author(s): W. F. Albright
Source: Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 39, No. 3/4 (1920), pp. 143-151
Published by: The Society of Biblical Literature
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ALBRIGHT: BABYLONIAN DERIVATION OF THE LOGOS 143
W. F. ALBRIGHT
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH, JERUSALEM
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144 JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE
form is occurring
nounce,' awatu, derived, as seen
in Assyrian, by Ungnad,
Arabic, Aramaic,from theand
Hebrew, stem .hwy, 'an-
Egyptian.
5 See his Kosmologie, p. 323 f., and Mythen und Epen, p. 302 f. The rea-
sons given by Jensen in support of his rendering are now all antiquated,
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ALBRIGHT: BABYLONIAN DERIVATION OF THE LOGOS 147
11 Assyr.
12 For kadbu,
rigmu, 'break,
'thunder,' cf., e.cut,' is Heb.(Knudtzon
g., Amarna kagadv,Ed.)
Ar.No.k.gcaba,
147, 'break, cut.'
13. Ramman as thunderer is called Ragimu.
13 Pennsylvania Museum Journal, Vol. 8, p. 138.
14 Atharva Veda, 2, 31.
15 Cf. Kuhn, Herabkunft des Feuers, p. 102 f., where the subject is
not, however, treated with the breadth to be expected now, after two
generations of progress beyond the methods employed in that remarkable
work.
16 Cf. note 5, above.
10
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