(HTR 65 [1972] 140) relates it to the noun משׂרה, usually translated “government” (e.g., Isa 9:6 [5]); hence he explains the name as “El judges,” which is very similar to M. Noth’s earlier suggestion (Personennamen, 208), “May God rule.” But as Ross observes, “these other suggestions are no more compelling than the popular etymology given in the text of Genesis.… The concept of God’s fighting with someone is certainly no more of a problem than the passage itself. And the reversal of the emphasis