[232] The Sun and the Serpent, pp. 99 f. (1905).
[233] The feast of Pesach (“Passover”) coincided with this; it was also a spring festival at which the firstlings of the herds were offered (Exod. xxxiv. 25).
[234] E.g. 1 Kings viii. 2, xii. 32; Judg. xxi. 19; Lev. xxiii. 39, 41.
[235] This is also true of the Targums, where an allusion to the dance is sometimes strikingly obvious, e.g. in the Targ. of Onkelos to Deut. xvi. 14; the people are bidden to rejoice at their feasts with the playing of flutes; this was one of the most usual accompaniments to the sacred dance all the world over.
[236] See Moore, Judges, pp. 304 f. (1903).
[237] Cp. Judges ix. 27.
[238] See e.g. Reinach, Orpheus, p. 273 (1909); Carl Rathjens, Die Juden in Abessinien, p. 78 (1921).
[239] Talmudische Archäologie, III. 101, and the references on p. 285.
[240] Mishnah, Sukkah, V. 1.
[241] Sukkah, IV. 1-4.