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

by S. Baring-Gould

[556] Targum of Palestine, ii. p. 390.

[557] Tabari, i. c. lxxvii.; Weil, pp. 182, 183; Abulfeda, p. 33.

[558] Eisenmenger, ii. p. 305. Possibly the passage Zech. ix. 11, 12, may contain an allusion to this tradition.

[559] Eisenmenger, ii. p. 305.

[560] Pirke R. Eliezer, c. 45.

[561] Perhaps the passage Isai. xl. 4 may be an allusion to this tradition.

[562] Talmud, Tract. Beracoth, fol. 54, col. 2; Targum of Palestine, ii., pp. 411-13.

[563] Talmud, Tract. Beracoth, fol. 54, col. 2; Targums, ii. p. 416; Yraschar, p. 1296.

[564] Talmud, Tract. Sopherim, fol. 42, col. 2.

[565] Ibid., Tract. Nida, fol. 24, col. 2.