[1] G. B. iii. 159.
[2] Ezra ii. 2; Nehemiah vii. 7.
[3] Esther ii. 7.
[4] Encyclop. Bibl. s.v. 'Esther.'
[5] Jastrow, p. 686, note 2.
[6] Encyclop. Bibl. s.v. 'Esther.'
[7] G. B. iii. 158, 159.
[8] Jastrow does not indicate that, in the ancient poem on Eabani, he did 'return to the upper world.' But see L. W. King, Bab. and Ass. Rel. and Myth. p. 146.
[9] G. B. iii. 178.
[10] Jastrow, p. 513.