[242] Cp. Reinach, op. cit. p. 271.
[243] See Megillath Taanith, IV. 8-10; this was before the Day of Atonement had become a Fast-day; one sees, therefore, how ancient the custom was.
[244] Megillath Taanith, V.
[245] Bell. Jud. II. xvii. 6.
[246] See further on this, Krauss, op. cit. III. 102, 285.
[247] On these see further Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, I. 340 ff., 391 f. (1921).
[248] Alois Musil, Arabia Petraea, III. 200 ff. (1908).
[249] Dalman, Palestinischer Diwan, p. 254 (1901).
[250] Featherman, Social History of Mankind, I. 334 f. (1881).
[251] See G. Friedlander’s edition of this work, p. 208 (1916).