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

by S. Baring-Gould

[416] Yaschar, p. 1197. Nearly all these incidents in the life of Joseph are common to Jewish and Mussulman traditions.

[417] Tabari, p. 220; Weil, p. 112; both taken from the Rabbinic story in Yaschar, p. 1195.

[418] Weil, p. 113.

[419] Targums, i. pp. 296-9; Midrash, fol. 45; Yaschar, p. 1200.

[420] Midrash, fol. 45.

[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] Midrash, Jalkut. fol. 46.

[425] Weil, p. 122.