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

by S. Baring-Gould

[381]. Pirke R. Eliezer, c. 35.

[382]. William Sanderson, Vita Mariæ, reg. Scot., et Jacobi, reg. Anglorum; also Beckmann, Notitiar. dignit. Dissert. 3, c. i. § 7.

[383]. The whole of the above is from the Targumim.

[384]. Jalkut Cadasch, fol. 81, col. 1; Yaschar, p. 1161 et seq.

[385]. Eisenmenger, i. p. 486.

[386]. Jalkut Rubeni, fol. 61, col. 3.

[387]. Jalkut Cadasch, fol. 91, col. 4.

[388]. Targum of Palestine, i. p. 272.

[389]. Jacob prepared three things against Esau—War, Gifts, and Prayer—as a token to all men that they must overcome evil by Resistance, by Alms, and by Supplication. (R. Bechai, Comm. on the Five Books of Moses, fol. 42, col. 4.)

[390]. Jalkut Rubeni, fol. 62, col. 2.