Ilubi’di and the supposed Jaubi’di

Ever since the days of OPFERT and MENANT'S translation of Les Pastes de Sargon (1863) the proposition has been maintained that the name of the king of Hamath against whom Sargon proceeded was interchangeably Ilubfdi and Jcfubfdi?} and the conclusion has been drawn from this supposed interchange between Ilu and Jau, parallel to the interchange between D^p^K and ^iiT in the case of the Judaean king (II Kings XXIII, 34 sq.) that among the Hittites, there was a god ίΤ as among the Hebrews, or rather that the worship of the deity Yah was not limited to the Hebrews.DEUTZSCH in his valuable work Wo lag das Paradies (pp.158-164) enters into a full discussion of the subject and adduces further evidence in favor of the supposed general "Canaanitish" character of this deity.In view of the importance of the conclusion drawn from the name of this Hittite ruler, it is rather strange that the reading should have been handed down from one person to the other without a more careful consideration of other possibilities

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