A Sketch of Semitic Origins: Social and Religious

Africa Agade agricultural ancient appears Arabic Aramæans Ashtart Ashur Assurbanipal Atargatis Athtar Baal Babylon Babylonia and Assyria called civilization clan conception connected cult date-palm deity dingir divine doubt early Egyptian El-Amarna Enlil epithet Erech Eridu Eshmun evidence fact feast feminine fertility festival Geschichte gods Gudea Hadad Hamitic Hebraica Hebrew Hilprecht History Hittite ibid ideogram III¹ influence inscriptions Ishtar Israel Jastrow Jensen Kenites king kinship Kish land later Marduk marriage Mediterranean Race ment mother goddess myth natural Ninâ Ningirsu Nippur nomadic oasis Old Testament origin Palestine palm tree pantheon Phoenician polyandry primitive Semitic probably prophets race Radau regarded Religion of Babylonia religious Robertson Smith sacred seems Shamash Shirpurla social south Arabia Sumerian survived Syria tablet Tammuz temple Thureau tion totem traced transformed tribes Wellhausen worship Yahwe ZDMG