[71]. See Kuenen, The Religion of Israel, London 1874, I. 226.
[72]. We shall treat of this in the Third Section of Chapter VIII.
[73]. Translated and given as an Appendix to this volume.—Tr.
[74]. How readily Alexander’s history was combined with the Solar myth is best proved by the fact that Arabian tradition gives Alexander a Sun-name, the variously interpreted Ḏû-l-karnein = the Horned, i.e. the Beaming.
[75]. Translated and given as an Appendix to this volume.—Tr.
[76]. Wayyiḳrâ rabbâ, sect. XIX.: hishchîr we-heʿerîbh.
[77]. See Gesenius, Thesaurus, p. 1406. b.
[78]. See Hermann Cohen’s dissertation, Die dichterische Phantasie und der Mechanismus des Bewusstseins, in the Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie, &c. 1869, VI. 239 et seq.
[79]. On the German legends in which this idea occurs see Henne-Am-Rhyn, Die deutsche Volkssage, Leipzig 1874, p. 268 et seq.
[80]. See Ps. LXXIV. 13–14; LXXXIV. 11. There is nothing to justify those interpreters who, caring nothing for the remains of ancient myths, always wish to understand by Rahabh and Tannîn the kingdom of Egypt.