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

by S. Baring-Gould

[196] Tabari, c. xli.

[197] Weil, p. 45.

[198] Midrash, fol. 15.

[199] Tabari, p. 113.

[200] Fabricius, i. pp. 74, 243.

[201] Ed. Dillmann, c. 67.

[202] Ed. Etheridge, i. p. 182.

[203] Gen. v. 20.

[204] In the Midrash Rabba, this want of connection between the name and the signification is remarked upon, and Solomon Jarki in his commentary says that, for the meaning assigned, the name ought to have been, not Noah, but Menahem.

[205] Buttmann, Ueber der Mythus d. Sûndfluth, Berlin, 1819; Lûken Die Traditionen des Menschengeschlechts, Munster, 1856; Bryant, Of the Deluge in Ancient Mythology, London, 1775, etc.