LiTERATURB.— The NT idea of righteousness is more or less fully discussed in all Commentaries and Biblical Theolo^es, The Pauline doctrine is carefully considered in Meyer and Sanday-Ueadiam on Rouiaiis, and in Morison on Uamaiis Third. The general subject receives attention in the ST Theologies of Baur, Weiss, Beyschlag, Bovon, and Holtzmann, and special aspects of it in Wendt's Teaching of Jemui, Bruce's Kinodom of God, and St. Pmd's Conception of Chrvitianitjj, and Stevens* raxdiiie Theology. A careful study of the words will be found in Oremer's Bib.-Theol. Lex. of HT Greek.
G. B. Stevens. RIMMON ([b-i).— The name of a Syrian deity mentioned as occupying a temple in Damascus during the activity of Elisha in Israel (2 K 5'*). It appears in such compound proper names aa Hadad-rimmon (Zee 12") and Tab-rimmon (1 K 15"). LXX reads '^eiiixAv and the Vulg. Remmon. It hai been interpreted as 'pomegranate' by Movers (Z^is Phonizier, i. 197 f.) and Lenormant (Lcttres assyrio- logiques, iL 215, r. 1). But the name is now identified with the Bab.-Assyr. deity RammAn, god of wind and weather, of the air and clouds, of thunder, lightning, and storm. He is designated in the inscriptions as AN. IM, that is, ' god of the celestial regions,' and on reliefs and seals he ia figured as armed like Jove with thunderbolts. Raminftn is sometimes derived from c\-t or do-i, and thus taken to mean 'the high,' 'majestic' one (cf. Baudissin, Studien, i. p. 307) ; again it ia derived from the stem ci"! ' thunder,' and sup- posed to be = 'the thunderer' (Schrader, Jrthrb. J. prot. Tlwol. i. 334 fl. ). The correct derivation of the word is that advocated by Pinches from a Bab.-
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Assyr. root ramAmu, 'roar,' 'thunder' (cf. Del. U (( 11 624). For Syria and the west, in a compara- tive list of deities, Hadad, Adad, Daddii, Dada, Addti appear as special names for Raramin (Bezold, PSBA, Juno 7, 1S87). The identification of Hadad or Aditd of Syria with liammdn of Babylonia- Assyria is estaulished by the fact that these two names are represented by one and the same ideo- gram in several proper names (cf. Pinches, PSBA, 1SS3, pp. 71-73). Rimmon is tlieu a Hebraized form (the word for 'pomegranate') of the Bab.- Assyr. name liammAyi, and is identical with the Syrian god Hadad or Adad. The importance of this deity in Syria is seen in the fact that his name heads the list of four gods of the North Syrian kingdom of PanammH to whom his son Bar- Rakiib offered prayer (cf. Ausgrabungen in Send- sc/iirli, vol. i. p. 61). For a detailed description of the latest utterances on the etymology of the name, and the attributes and relations of Rammfln, see Jastrow, Jiclifiion of Babylonia and Assyria, pp. 156-164. It may be that the compound (Heb.) form Hadad-Rimmon (in Bab.-Assyr. Adad-Rammdn) arose, as suggested by Baethgen (Beitr. z. sem. Relig.-Gesch. 75), in a manner similar to Adonis- Osiris in Cyprus. Such combination would be self-explanatory to the population of all Western Asia. To this 'prince of the power of the air' was dedicated the eleventh month, the rain-month Shebat. In the Bab. pantheon, Ramm&n appears as the son of Ann and Anatu.
LiTERATCEE.— Baudissin, stud. z. lem. Relig.-Gach. L 306-308 ; Title, Bati.-Aiusnr. Gttch. ii. 525, n. 3 ; Schnuler, COT i. 196t. ; Helilzech-Smith, Chald. Genetit, 209 f. ; Wincklcr, Gesch Bab. u. Aggifr. 164, 106; Baethgen, Beitr. zur gem. Reiig..Gt'8ch. 75; Winckler, AUtett. Unterguc\- 09 ; Delitzsch, Calwer BiheU^^i- con, art. ' UimmoD ; Kiehni, UWB, art. 'Rimmon'; Ueyer, GueA. L 176. 182 ; Hilprecbt, Aisyriaca, 76 ff.
Ira M. Price. RIMMON (ite? ' pomegranate,' ■PtMA'w"').— A Bcer- othite, the father of Baanah and Rechab, who muidered Ishbosheth, the son and successor of Saul (2 S 4»- »• »).
RIMMON.— 1. The rock (;to-)(ri) pSp, ^ wirpa (toC) 'Pt/n/xiii') in the eastern highlands or wilderness (midbdr) of Benjamin, whither the remnants of the Beniamites (.Jg 20^ 21i^) fled. It has been identiKea bv Robinson (i. 440) as a lofty rock or conical chalky hill, visible in all directions, on the summit of which stands the villa-'e of RummCn. It forms a remarkable object in the landscape as seen from the village of JibA, some 6 miles distant. It is about 4 miles east of Beitin (Bethel) (cf. van de Velde, Memoir, 345 ; SWP ii. 292). A place of this name is mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome as existing in their day 15 miles north of Jerusalem {Onomast. s. 'Rimmon').
2. (po-i) A city in the south of Judah, towards the border of Edom, Jos 15"^ {'Epufuie) ; in 19' (B 'Epfii/uip, A 'Pfij./xu9) counted to Simeon ; in Zee 14'" {'Peiiiiuf) named as lying to the far south of Jcru.salera. In the first two of these pas-sages Rimmon is coupled with Ain (in the first with, in the second without, the conjunction i), cf. 1 Ch 4''''. In Neh U'*, on the other hand, we read En-rimmon ('spring of the pomegranate '), and there are good grounds for holding that this is the correct reading in all the other passages as well. See En-rimmon.
Van de Velde {Mem. 344) has identified Rimmon and En-rimmon witli Urnm er-Rum&min, between Beit-Jibrin and Bir esSeba, very nearly at the di.Mtance mentioned by Eusebius. He mentions that Grotius and Rosenmiiller suppose, as a solu- tion of the difficulty, that Ain and Rimmon were near together, and in later years united in one. 'Ain is probably identical with a site onlv half a mile north of Umm er-Iiumdmtn, now called Tell Khewel/eh, and opposite another ancient site. Tell