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

by S. Baring-Gould

[301]. Both the Rabbinic commentators and the Mussulman historians tell a long story about the discussion carried on between Gabriel and Abraham in the air, as he was being shot into the flames. It is hardly worth repeating.

[302]. Tabari, i. p. 147.

[303]. Weil, p. 78.

[304]. Gen. xv.

[305]. Tabari, i. p. 156.

[306]. Gen. xiv. 19. The book Jasher also says that Amraphel and Nimrod are the same.

[307]. Gen. xiv. 17.

[308]. Gen. xiv. 19, 20.

[309]. Gen. xiv. 23, 24.

[310]. Ps. ix. 8.