shame/Ba'al'. In his proposed 1967 etymology , already diverted from the then majority view and translated Aramaic: ילדא, romanized: yaldā similarly to Scholem, as . He believed the name's second part to derive from . This he interpreted however to describe more broadly 'the power of generation'; thus suggesting the name to mean 'the bringing fourth of the power of generation'. Historical origins At least from 200 BCE onwards a tradition developed in the Graeco-Egyptian Ptolemaic Kingdom which identified Yahweh, the god of the Jews, with the Egyptian god Seth. Following the Assyrian conquest of Egypt in the 7th century BCE, Seth was seen as an evil deity by the Egyptians and not commonly worshipped, in large part due to his role as the god of foreigners. Seth's appearance was thought of as resembling a man with a donkey's head. The Greek practice of interpretatio graeca, ascribing the gods of another people's pantheon to corresponding ones in one's own, had been adopted by the Egyptians after their Hellenisation; during the process of which they had identified Seth with Typhon, a snake-monster, which roars like a lion. The story of the Exodus, featured in the Hebrew Bible, speaks of the Jews as a nation betrayed and subjugated by the pharao, for whom Yaweh subjects Egyptians to ten plagues –destroying their country, defiling their holy river, the Nile, and killing all their first-born sons. Jewish migration within the hellenised Ptolemaic Kingdom to Greek-speaking Egyptian cities like Alexandria, led to the creation of the Septuagint, a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Koine Greek. Furthermore, the story of the Exodus was adapted by Ezekiel the Tragedian into the , a Greek play performed in Alexandria and seen by Egyptians and Jews. Egyptian receptions of the Exodus story were widely negative, because it insulted their gods and praised their suffering. Thus it inspired Egyptian works retelling the story, but changing its details to mock the Jews and exalt Egypt and its gods. In this context some Egyptians saw similarities between Yaweh's in-narrative actions and attributes and those of Seth, in addition to a phonetic resemblance between , Yahweh's name as used by hellenised Jews, and , then seen as the animal of Seth. From this arose a popular response to the Jewish accusation that Egyptians were merely worshipping beasts, namely that, in truth, the Jews themselves worshipped a beast, a donkey or a donkey-headed