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context that required some sort of inclosure, may well have suggested
7rapc'~(Sros
to the Greek translators. The accidental transposition of S,
resulting in i ~1, gave a form that could not be construed, but Semitic
contact with Indo-Europeans had already produced Assyrian par-di-su and
Hebrew •17 , and the LXX rendering of '1" •7C, etc., could not fail to
suggest C''In as the obvious solution. This will explain why the LXX
appropriately omitted j"IM, but after the formulation of CI"'" the omission
was rightly regarded as improper. The figurative force of the verse now
fits in admirably with what precedes and what follows, namely, a garden
fountain in both cases, and the direct personal element in the figure that
stands out so prominently in the suffix "thy" and rather harshly in the exist-
ing text can now be quite as readily construed personally, thus: "The over-
flow of thy lips is a source of life-giving sweet and beautiful words." If
the above represents the true process of the text, the LXX, to be sure, shows
no trace of -'5s. This may have been due, however, either to the desire to
avoid what seemed to be a harsh figure (cf. Ps. 18:10) or it may have been
occasioned by conscious abbreviation (cf. Deut. 17:6 and also 21:17). For
a tendency in the opposite direction see I Sam. 1:23 (LXX).
LEROY WATERMAN
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
THE NAME MOSES
In the October issue of this Journal, in my article upon "Southern
Influences upon Hebrew Prophecy" (p. 6, n. 4), I called attention to some
of the data bearing upon the question as to whether or not the name "Moses"
might be derived from the Egyptian word ms. I noted that no case of an
Egyptian 3 coming over into Semitic as ' had yet been found, but went on to
say in the light of existing facts, "It should be noted, however, that the
known cases of ' transliterated are very few in all, and that it is probable that
were we to have a larger number we should have C and tI both representing
s. The absence of 1Z
is probably purely accidental."
Since the appearance of that article my friend Dr. T. George Allen has
called my attention to a name in the Amarna letters that is of first-class
importance for this question and fully establishes the legitimacy of my con-
tention. In Knudtzon, No. 113, 11.
36, 43 and No. 114, 1. 51, letters from
Rib-Addi to the Pharaoh, there occurs the name of an Egyptian official
written A-ma-an-ma-'a. This is clearly the good Egyptian name Amen-
mose, which occurs frequently in the period of the eighteenth dynasty, as
Ranke pointed out in Keilschrift. Material zur Altdgyptischen Vokalisation
(Berlin: Reimer, 1910), p. 8; cf. Knudtzon, p. 1212. Several other examples
of the transliteration of Egyptian ' by Semitic ' occur in Egyptian names and
