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R.H. Allen , Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, , [1990], 362, Sir William Drummond asserted that in the Zodiac which the patriarch Abraham knew it was an Eagle; and some commentators have located here the biblical Chambers of the South, Scorpio being directly opposite the Pleiades on the sphere, both thought to be mentioned in the same passage of the Book of Job with two other opposed constellations, the Bear and Orion; but the original usually is considdered a reference to the southern heavens in general. Aben Ezra identified Scorpio, or Anteares, with the K ͤsil of the Hebrews; although that people generaly considered these stars as a Scorpion, ther 'Akrabh...
Robert Eisenman , De Dode-Zeerollen onthuld, , [1993], p. 248, 249,
G.V. Schiaparelli , Die Astronomie im Alten Testament (1904), , [2010], 58-62,
Merrill C. Tenney , Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, , [1976], Vol. 1, p. 777,
Encyclopedie , International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, , Yet again when Job 9:9 is compared with Job 38:31-32, it is seen that the place of the word mazzaroth in the latter passage is held by the expression "the chambers of the south" (chadhre theman) in the earlier. Mazzaroth therefore is equivalent to "the chambers of the south," and clearly signifies the twelve constellations of the zodiac through which the sun appears to pass in the course of the year, poetically likened to the "inns," the "chambers" or "tabernacles" in which the sun successively rests during the several monthly stages of his annual journey. The same idea was employed by the Arabs in their "mansions of the moon," its "lodging-houses" (menazil), which are 28 in number, since the moon takes 28 days to make the circuit of the heavens, just as the sun takes 12 months.
Encyclopedie , Jewish Encyclopedia, , and that חדרי תימן is to be amended to read חדרי תאמין ("chambers of the Twins," Gemini).
Encyclopedie , The Catholic Encyclopedia,, , Hadre Theman (Chambers of the South)
The glories of the sky adverted to the Book of Job include a sidereal landscape vaguely described as "the chambers [i.e. penetralia] of the south". The phrase, according to Schiaparelli, refers to some assemblage of brilliant stars, rising 20 degrees at most above the southern horizon in Palestine about the year 750 B.C. (assumed as the date of the Patriarch Job), and, taking account of the changes due to precession, he points out the stellar pageant formed by the Ship, the Cross, and the Centaur meets the required conditions. Sirius, although at the date in question it culminated at an altitude of 41 degrees, may possibly have been thought of as belonging to the "chambers of the south"; otherwise, this spendid object would appear to be ignored in the Bible.