[6.30] The Talmud of Jerusalem, Megilla, fol. 73 d, mentions four hundred and twenty-five synagogues. Comp. Midrasch Eka, 52 b, 70 d. Such a number would appear by no means improbable to those who have seen the little family mosques which are found in every Mahommedan village. But the Talmudic information about Jerusalem is of mediocre authority.
[6.31] Acts vi. 1.
[6.32] The Epistle of St. James was written in moderately pure Greek. It is true that the authenticity of this Epistle is not certain.
[6.33] The savants wrote in ancient Hebrew, somewhat altered.
[6.34] Jos. Ant. last paragraph.
[6.35] This proves the transcriptions of Greek into Syriac. I have developed here in my Eclaircissements sirés des Langues Sémitiques sur quelque points de la Prononciatian Grecque. (Paris, 1849.) The language of the Greek inscriptions of Syria is very bad.
[6.36] Jos. Ant. loc. cit.
[6.37] Sat. I. v. 105.
CHAPTER VII.
[7.1] See the accounts collected and translated by Eugene Burnouf. Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, i. p. 137, and following pages, and particularly pp. 198, 199.