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

by S. Baring-Gould

[541]. Tabari, i. p. 393.

[542]. Koran, Sura ii. v. 54.

[543]. Tabari, i. p. 394; but also Deut. viii. 4, Nehemiah ix. 21.

[544]. 1 Cor. x. 4.

[545]. Tabari, i. p. 373.

[546]. See my “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,” article on S. George. I have no doubt whatever that El Khoudr, identified by the Jews with Elias, is the original of the Wandering Jew. I did not know this when I wrote on the “Wandering Jew” in my “Curious Myths,” but I believe this to be the key to the whole story.

[547]. Weil, pp. 176-81; Tabari, i. c. lxxvi.; Koran, Sura xviii.

[548]. Voltaire has taken this legend as the basis of his story of “Zadig.”

[549]. Targums, ii. pp. 380, 381.

[550]. Weil, p. 175.