[81]. Angelo de Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, II. 217. On the meaning of milk and honey in the Hebrew myth, Steinthal has written exhaustively in his Treatise on the Story of Samson, given in the Appendix.
[82]. See Weber in the Zeitschrift der D. M. G., 1855, IX. 238.
[83]. Al-Meydânî, Majmaʿ al-amthâl, II. 203.
[84]. Korân, Sûr. V. v. 69.
[85]. Sonne, Mond und Sterne [i.e. Bd. I. of Die poetischen Naturanschauungen, &c.], p. 4.
[86]. Die Naturgeschichte der Sage, I. 127.
[87]. See [Excursus A].
[88]. Such names have often planted themselves firmly in popular tradition, and are accordingly mentioned in various quarters with perfect uniformity. So e.g. Ιαννῆς and Ιαμβρῆς, who appear both in Rabbinical writings and in 2 Tim. III. 8 (see Jablonski, Opuscula, ed. Te Water, II. 23).
[89]. See Wilhelm Bacher’s treatise, Kritische Untersuchungen zum Prophetentargûm (Zeitschrift der D. M. G. 1874, XXVIII. 7).
[90]. Leben Abraham’s nach Auffassung der jüdischen Sage, Leipzig 1859. Another good compilation is that of Hamburger, Geist der Hagada, Leipzig 1857, I. 39–50.