[1301] Incidentally, a proof that the dead were not buried naked.
[1302] Das Leben nach dem Tode, etc, p. 67.
[1303] I Sam. ii. Recognized by the critics as an insertion. See Budde, Die Bücher Richter und Samuel, p. 197.
[1304] I Kings, xvii. 21, 22.
[1305] Chapter ii. 7.
[1306] Psalms, cxxxix. 8; a very late production.
[1307] Schürer, A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, vol. II. Division li. pp. 38, 39, 179-181.
[1308] E.g., the custom still in vogue among Orthodox Jews of placing the body wrapped in a shroud upon a board, instead of in a coffin.
[1309] Professor Haupt has recently shown (in a paper read before the American Oriental Society, April, 1897, and before the Eleventh International Congress of Orientalists, September, 1897) that such is the meaning of the phrase, Psalms, cxxxvii. 1, which is ordinarily translated 'rivers of Babylon.'
[1310] The Talmud of Babylonia, and not the Talmud of Palestine, became the authoritative work in the Jewish Church.