36Ex. 17: 1. 37» Ex. 17: 6–7.
37Ex. 17: 6–7.
38Stanley, p. 95.
40Browning, р. 185.
41Ibid.,p. 211.
42Ibid., p. 212.
43Ibid.
44For instance, see The Koran, Sura 2: 54, 28: 17.
45Browning, p. 212.
46Ibid., pp. 214-16.
47Ex. 24: 5.
48Ex. 24: 6.
49Browning, p. 213.
50Ibid., pp. 215-16.
51Ibid., p. 216.
52Nielsen, p. 16.
53The betyl is orientated at an angle of 251 degrees from north.
54Nielsen, p. 16.
55Ibid.
56Ibid.
57Ibid.
58Ibid. See also Nielsen,
59Glueck, The Other Side of the Jordan, p. 178.
60Personal communication between Andrew Collins and Ahmad Muammar, an archaeologist and tour guide from Wadi Musa, in March 2002.
61See Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites, pp. 201—12, for a full account of the veneration of pillars among the early Semites.
62Personal communication between Andrew Collins and Ahmad Muammar in March 2002.
63Browning, pp. 46—7.
64Ibid., pp. 108, 210-11.
65Personal communication between Andrew Collins and Ahmad Muammar in March 2002.
66Browning, p. 48.
67Gunduz, «The Knowledge of Life», JSS 3 (1994), pp. 83, 118-19.
68Ibid.,p. 154.
69Ibid., p. 138.
70Ibid., p. 154.
71Rev. 17: 3–6. For the association between Venus and Babylon see Hislop, The Two Babylons, or the papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrud and his wife, pp. 5–6. 72Nielsen, p. 21.
73Nielsen, p. 21.
ГЛАВА ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЕРВАЯ. ДОМ БОЖИЙ
1See Nielsen, Die altarabische Mondreligion und die mosaische Ueberlieferung 1904, pp. 171—6.
2Num. 20: 22.
3Num. 20: 25–29.
4Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, IV iv, 6–7; IV, vii, 1.
5Ibid., IV, iv, 7.
6Deut. 32: 51-2.
7Deut. 34: 1–5.
8Deut. 52: 50.
9Nielsen, The Site of the Biblical Mount Sinai: A claim for Petra, p. 19.
10This story of Nabi Harun was related to Andrew Collins by Mu» tasim Nawafleh, the head barman of the Petra Forum Hotel, Petra, in March 2002.
11Browning, Petra, p. 172.
12Nielsen, 1928, p. 22; Ex. 24: 9.