Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets / And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources

by S. Baring-Gould

[86] Talmud, Avoda Sara, fol. 8 a, and in Levy, Parabeln, p. 300.

[87] It is a popular superstition among the lower orders in England that a woman who dies in childbirth, even if she be unmarried, cannot be lost.

[88] Weil, pp. 29-38.

[89] Dillman, Das Adambuch des Morgenlandes; Göttingen, 1853. This book is not to be confounded with the Testament of Adam.

[90] Tabari, i., capp. xxviii. xxix.

[91] In More Nevochim, quoted by Fabricius, i. p. 5.

[92] Gen. v. i.

[93] Fabricius, i. p. 11.

[94] Adv. Hæresi, c. 5.

[95] Eusebius Nierembergius, De Origine S. Scripturæ. Lugd., 1641.