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

by S. Baring-Gould

[406] Targums, i. 289.

[407] Weil, p. 102.

[408] Yaschar, tr. Drachs, p. 1192.

[409] Tabari, i. pp. 213, 214.

[410] Targums, i. 288.

[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.