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

by S. Baring-Gould

[151]. Anastasius Sinaita, Ὁδηγός, ed. Gretser, Ingolst. 1606, p. 269.

[152]. Gen. v. 6-9.

[153]. Pseudo Josephus Gorionides; ed. Clariss. Breithauptius, lib. ii. c. 18, p. 131.

[154]. I give the Arabic legend. The account in Jasher is different. Enoch retired from the world, and showed himself only at rare intervals, when he gave advice to all who came to hear his wisdom. He was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind, in a chariot with horses of fire. (Yaschar, pp. 1094-1096.)

[155]. Tabari, i. c. xxxv.

[156]. Dillmann, Das Buch Enoch; Leipzig, 1853. Ewald, in his “Geschichte der Volks Israel” (iii. 2, pp. 397-401), attributes it to the year 130 B.C.

[157]. Fol. 26, col. 2.

[158]. Jalkut Rubeni, fol. 27, col. 4.

[159]. Ibid., fol. 107, col. i.

[160]. Targums, ed. Etheridge, i. p. 175.