Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sources

by S. Baring-Gould

[81]. Weil, p. 28.

[82]. Basnage, Histoire des Juifs. La Haye, iii. p. 391.

[83]. Tract. Avod., f. 1, col. 3; also Tract. Pesachim, f. 118, col. 1.

[84]. Eisenmenger, i. pp. 376, 377.

[85]. Eisenmenger, i. pp. 377-80.

[86]. Talmud, Avoda Sara, fol. 8 a, and in Levy, Parabeln, p. 300.

[87]. It is a popular superstition among the lower orders in England that a woman who dies in childbirth, even if she be unmarried, cannot be lost.

[88]. Weil, pp. 29-38.

[89]. Dillman, Das Adambuch des Morgenlandes; Göttingen, 1853. This book is not to be confounded with the Testament of Adam.

[90]. Tabari, i., capp. xxviii. xxix.