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

by S. Baring-Gould

[411]. Yaschar, pp. 1188-9; Parrascha Wajescheb. This touching incident is common to Rabbinic and Mussulman traditions. It has been gracefully versified by Dr. Le Heris, “Sagen aus der Orient;” Mannheim, 1852.

[412]. His name in Arabic is Aziz.

[413]. Zuleika is the name in Yaschar; it is that also given her by the Arabs.

[414]. Tract. Sota., fol. 36, col. 2. The original account of this final detail is too absurd and monstrous to be narrated more particularly.

[415]. Tabari, i. p. 217.

[416]. Yaschar, p. 1197. Nearly all these incidents in the life of Joseph are common to Jewish and Mussulman traditions.

[417]. Tabari, p. 220; Weil, p. 112; both taken from the Rabbinic story in Yaschar, p. 1195.

[418]. Weil, p. 113.

[419]. Targums, i. pp. 296-9; Midrash, fol. 45; Yaschar, p. 1200.

[420]. Midrash, fol. 45.