MITER. See VESTMENTS AND INSIGNIA, ECCLESIASTICAL.

MIXED MARRIAGES. See MARRIAGE

MOAB.

Geography and Topography (§ 1).

Cities (§ 2).

History Prior to 586 B.C.(§ 3).

History after 586 B.C. (§ 4).

Products, Culture, and Religion (§ 5).

Relations between Moab and Israel (§ 6).

1. Geography and Topography

Moab is the name of a people dwelling east of the Dead Sea and of the land which they inhabited, in Greek times called Moabitis. The modern Arabic name of the land north of Wadi Mojib is el-Bel$a, of the part south of that wadi, Kerak. The western boundary is the Dead Sea, the eastern is the desert; on the south Wadi el-Vaaa separates it from Edom. The northern boundary changed with the history of the people, but the Wadi Hesban is probably the extreme northern limit. Moab is a high plateau, which continues eastward into the desert with little change of altitude. The western boundary is an abrupt line of cliffs, with a somewhat broad shore at their foot in the south which grows narrower toward the north until the cliffs rise directly from the water. At the mouths of the Wadi bani Hammed and Wadi Kerak a tongue-shaped sandy peninsula stretches out into the Dead Sea and bears the name al=Liaas, "the Tongue." The geological formation of the region is at the base Nubian sandstone, covered with

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Molokahi Xoasrohiaaism THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG 458 ten, Frankfort, 1849; A. Kuenen, in ThT, ii (1868), 551 598; idem, De Godedienet roan Israel, chap. iv., Eng. tranal., Religion of Israel, i. 249-252, London, 1873; H. Oort, in Waarheid in Liefde, 1868. pp. 1-31, 81-108, 161-173; W. von Baudissin, Jahve et Moloch, Leipsic, 1874; E. Nestle, Die israelitiechen Eigennamen, pp. 174-182, ITear lem, 1876; P. 8eholtz, Gctzendienst and Zauberweeen bei den alten Hebrdern, pp 182-217, Regensburg, 1877; C. P. T1ele, Hid. compar6e lee anciennes religions de 11gypte et des peuples s6mitiques, 281 eqq., 311 eqq., 435 sqq., Paris, 1882; idem, Geechichte der Religion in Altertum, i. 240-244, 343-344, 349-352, Gotha, 1896; . Hoffman: ZATW, iii (1883), 124; idem, in GGA, aarcvi (1890), 25; B. D. Eerdmans, Melekdienst en verserinp van hemellicha men in larval's assyriache periods, Leyden, 1891; G. B. Gray, Studies in Hebrew Proper Names, pp. 115-120, 138, 148, London, 1896; A. Kamphausen, Dae Verhdltnis des , ppli161165RanEB, iii. 3183

G. F. Moore, in JBL3191; M. J. Lagrange, Etudes our les religions sbmitiques. pp. 99, 109, Paris, 1903; Schrader, KAT, pp 469-472; Smith, Hot. of Sam., pp. 372 eqq.; DB, iii. 415-417; JE, 653-664; Vigourous, Dictionnaire, fasc. uvii., ools. 12241230.

MOLOKANI. See Russ1A, III., § 6.