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

by S. Baring-Gould

[421]. Weil, p. 116; Tabari, i. c. 44; Gen. xli.; Yaschar, pp. 1202-8.

[422]. This conclusion of the loves of Zuleika and Joseph completes the romance, and makes it a most popular subject for poets in the East. Both Jewish and Mussulman traditions give Zuleika a very different character from that which Holy Scripture leads one to attribute to her.

[423]. Midrash, Jalkut, fol. 46.

[424]. Ibid.

[425]. Weil, p. 122.

[426]. Tabari, i. p. 247; taken from the Rabbinic Yaschar (Sepher Hajaschar), p. 1226.

[427]. Midrash, Jalkut, fol. 47; Yaschar, p. 1225; Berescheth Rabba, fol. 84, col. 4.

[428]. Yaschar, p. 1226.

[429]. This was the shirt given Abraham by Gabriel, to preserve him from the fire into which Nimrod cast him; it was fragrant with the odours of Paradise.

[430]. Koran, Sura xii.; Tabari, i. pp. 250, 251.