Note 5 — PREFACE

There can be no doubt that the work is a true example of the early Semitic Comedy. It was probably sung in Parts at the Spring-feast, and would be acted by shepherds wearing masks and throwing goatskins at one another, as they appear on the Bas-relief at Ik-shmûl. See the article in Righteousness, by a gentleman whom the Bible Society sent out to Assyria at their own expense; and the note to Appendix A of Benson’s Og: King of Bashan.