Verify Citation - 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
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Query: 2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
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Cyrus Gordon[1] (1988: p. 293) has traced how the Old Testament devil—“the Satan” (always with the definite article, not his actual name)—seems to have been a celestial-deity as late as the mid-third millennium BC.
Originally this was written with the date 1988, so we took a guess at the publication that we added to the footnote (Cyrus H. Gordon, “Ebla as Background for the Old Testament,” in Congress Volume Jerusalem 1986, in Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, Vol. 40 [Brill: 1988], p. 293.) and confirmed we did find the quotation that follows in there, so we are pretty sure on the citation. However, it is possible that the year was wrong and this was meant to be 1987, reflecting a work that was cited in Chapter 3’s Bibliography (we have not added it here in Chapter 2): Alfonso Archi, “Reflections on the System of Weights from Ebla,” in Cyrus H. Gordon, Gary A. Rendsburg, and Nathan H. Winter, eds., Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. I (Winona Lake, Indiana: 1987), pp. 47–90. If the quotations that follow are in that publication as well, let us know (“the horns of the moon and the tail(s) of the sun”; “‘horns and a tail,’ anticipating the familiar iconography of Satan”; “take cover behind locked doors until the menace of Haby passes”; and especially: Gordon concluded that “What may have happened is that his name was so feared that it was avoided. haśśātān ‘The Satan’ and o diabolos ‘The Devil’ both have the definite article, strongly suggesting that ‘The Satan’ and ‘The Devil’ are epithets of Habhaby/Haby, that gained currency to avoid the real and terrifying name of the demon.”[1]).
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cyrus H. Gordon, “Ebla as Background for the Old Testament,” in Congress Volume Jerusalem 1986, in Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, Vol. 40 (Brill: 1988), p. 293.
