Patriarchal stories, sources for discovery of Mythology, [19]

Patriarchs, their names mythical, referring to phenomena of Nature, [18];

are made types of Elohistic piety, [274];

years and cycles of years in their history, elaborated at Babylon, [329]

Perez and Zerah (Pharez and Zarah), Solar figures, [183]

Perizzites, their name denotes the ‘Wanderers,’ [53]

Persian antagonism to the Arabs gives a tone to legends in the Shâhnâmeh, [258]

Persian (Iranian) theological ideas influence the Hebrews in and after the Captivity, [326–9]

Persians, false genealogies invented by or for them, [357–8]

Pharez. See [Perez]