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153.Pseudo Josephus Gorionides;ed.Clariss. Breithauptius, lib.ii.c.18,p.131.

154.I give the Arabic legend. The account in Jasher is different. Enoch retired from the world, and showed himself only at rare intervals, when he gave advice to all who came to hear his wisdom. He was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind, in a chariot with horses of fire. (Yaschar,pp.1094-1096.)

155.Tabari,i.c.xxxv.

156.Dillmann,Das Buch Enoch; Leipzig, 1853. Ewald, in his“Geschichte der Volks Israel”(iii.2,pp.397-401), attributes it to the year 130B.C.

157.Fol.26,col.2.

158.Jalkut Rubeni,fol.27,col.4.

159.Ibid.,fol.107,col.i.

160.Targums,ed.Etheridge,i.p.175.

161.Suidas, Lexic.s. v.Nannacos.

162.Nischmath Chajim,fol.116,col.i.

163.Eisenmenger,i.p.380.

164.Das Buch Henoch, von Dillmann, Leipz. 1853,c.xv.p.9.

165.Abulfaraj,p.6.

166.Eutych., Patriarcha Alex., Annales ab Orbe Condito, Arabice et Lat.,ed.Selden; London, 1642,i.p.19.

167.D’Herbelot,s. v.Surkrag and Kaïumarth.

168.Tabari,c.xxxvii.

169.D’Herbelot,s. v.Tahmourath.

170.Tabari, caps.xxxix.xl.

171.Gen.iv.18-24.

172.Targums,ed.Etheridge,i.p.173.

173.Yaschar,tr.Drach,p.1092; the same in Midrash Jalkut,c.38; Midrash, Par. Bereschith,fol.2; Rabbi Raschi on Genesis; &c. &c.

174.Véland le Forgeron; Paris, 1833. There is an English translation by Wright.

175.Tabari,i.c.xxi.

176.Eisenmenger,ii.p.416.

177.Colin de Plancy,p.102.

178.Midrash,fol.12; so also Targum of Palestine, Etheridge,i.p.179.

179.Chron. Græc.,ed.Scaliger, Lugd. Batav. 1606,p.4.

180.Fabricius,i.p.225.

181.Eisenmenger,i.p.651.

182.Talmud, Tractat. Sanhedrin,fol.108,col.1. So also the Book Yaschar,p.1097.

183.Jalkut, Genesis,fol.14a.

184.Jalkut Shimoni, Job.fol.121,col.2.

185.Eisenmenger,i.p.385. The Targum of Palestine says the water was hot (i.p.179).

186.Tractat. Sevachim,fol.113,col.2.

187.Or, a unicorn; the Hebrew word is Reém.

188.Midrash,fol.14.

189.Eutych., Patriarcha Alex.,ed.Selden,i.p.36.

190.Tabari,p.108.

191.Abulfeda,p.17.

192.Yaschar,p.1100.

193.Colin de Plancy,p.110.

194.Weil,p.45.

195.Ararat.

196.Tabari,c.xli.

197.Weil,p.45.

198.Midrash,fol.15.

199.Tabari,p.113.

200.Fabricius,i.pp.74, 243.

201.Ed. Dillmann,c.67.

202.Ed.Etheridge,i.p.182.

203.Gen.v.20.

204.In the Midrash Rabba, this want of connection between the name and the signification is remarked upon, and Solomon Jarki in his commentary says that, for the meaning assigned, the name ought to have been, not Noah, but Menahem.

205.Buttmann,Ueber der Mythus d. Sündfluth, Berlin, 1819; Lüken,Die Traditionen des Menschengeschlechts, Münster, 1856; Bryant, Of the Deluge, in Ancient Mythology, London, 1775, &c.

206.Parrot, Journey to Ararat, English Trans. Lond. 1845.

207.Joseph. Antiq.,i.3; see also Ptolem. Geogr.vi.2.

208.Joseph. Antiq.,i.4.

209.Euseb. Præp. Evang.ix.19.

210.Lucian, De Dea Syra,c.12, 13.

211.Georg. Syncellus, Chronographia,p.29,B.,ed.Bonn; or Cory’s Ancient Fragments,p.26 et seq.

212.Præp. Evang.ix.12; see alsoS.Cyril contra Julian,i.

213.Bochart, Geogr. Sacra,p.231.

214.Ekhel, Doctrina Numm. Vet.iii.p.132 et seq.; see also Bryant’s New System of Ancient Mythology, Lond. 1775,i.note 3.

215.Orac. Sibyll,i.v.260, 265-7.Ed.Fiedlieb.

216.Bundehesch, 7.

217.On the Chronology of the Hindus, by SirW.Jones; Asiatic Researches,ii.pp.116-7.

218.Bopp, Die Sündfluth; Berlin, 1829,p.9.

219.Ovid. Metam.i.240 et seq.

220.Steph. Byzant.,s.voce Ικονιον.

221.Diod. Sicul. lib.i.

222.Mém. concernant les Chinois,i.p.157.

223.Klaproth, Inschrift. des Yu; Halle, 1811,p.29.

224.Mém. concernant les Chinois,ix.p.383.

225.Mart. Martinii, Hist. Sin.p.26.

226.Steller, Beschreibungv.Kamschatka; Frankf. 1774,p.273.

227.Serres, Kosmoganie des Moses, übersetzt vonF. X.Stech,p.149.

228.Davies, Mythology of the British Druids, London, 1809; and Celtic Researches, London, 1844: curious works on the Arkite worship and traditions of the Kelts.

229.The prose Edda; Mallet, Northern Antiq.,ed.Bohn,p.404.

230.Grimm, Deutsche Mythol.; Göttingen, 1854,p.545.

231.The same story precisely is told by the closely allied race of the Chippewas: Atherne Jones, Traditions of the North American Indians, London, 1830,ii.p.9 et seq.

232.Lütke, Voyage autour du Monde,i.p.189.

233.Braunschweig, Die alten amerik. Denkmäler; Berlin, 1840,p.18.

234.Atherne Jones, Traditions of theN.American Indians,ii.21-33.

235.Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, &c., of theN.American Indians; London, 1841.

236.Mayer, Mytholog. Taschenbuch; Weimar, 1811,p.245.

237.Schoolcraft, Notes on the Iroquois; New York, 1847,p.358.

238.Müller,Geschichte des amerikanischen Urreligionen, Basle, 1855,p.515; Lüken,Die Traditionen des Menschengeschlechts,p.223.

239.Humboldt, Anh. des Cordilleren,i.p.42.

240.Antonio de Herrera, Hist. general de los Hechos, &c.; Madrid, 1601,iii.c.10.

241.Compare Lüken and Müller.

242.Humboldt,Reise in die Aequinoctial Gegenden,iii.pp.406-7.

243.Nachrichten aus dem Lande Guiana, v. Salvator Gili; Hamb., 1785,pp.440-1, quoted by Lüken.

244.Garcilasso de la Vega, Hist. des Yncas; Amst.,i.pp.73 and 326.

245.Ausland, Jan. 1845,No.1.

246.Jalkut Genesis,fol.16a.

247.Colin de Plancy,p.121.

248.Tabari,i.c.xli.

249.Hist. Dynastiarum,ed.Pocock; Oxon., 1663,p.9.

250.Ibid.,p.10.

251.Eutychius, Patr. Alex., Annal.,t.i.p.44.

252.Bereschith Rabba,fol.22,col.4.

253.Eutych. Annal.,ed.Selden,i.p.35.

254.Suidas, Lexic.s. v.Σίβυλλα.

255.Tract. Sanhedrin,fol.108,col.2.

256.Tabari,i.p.115.

257.Colin de Plancy,p.124.

258.Eisenmenger,i.pp.318-9.

259.Ibid.,p.376.

260.Ibid.,p.395.

261.Adv. Hæres., lib.i.

262.De Tartaris,c.9.

263.Reliquiæ Arcæ Noæ, in Fabricius,i.art. 33.

264.Tabari,i.c.xlii.xliii.

265.Tabari,i.c.xliii.

266.Gen.xi.16, 18, 20, 22.

267.Abulfaraj, Hist. Dynastiarum,p.12.

268.Abulfaraj, Hist. Dynastiarum,p.13.

269.Gen.x.21-24.

270.Koran, Suraxi.verse 57.

271.Tabari,i.c.xliv.: Abulfeda, Hist. Ante Islamica,pp.19-21.

272.Weil,pp.47, 48.

273.Herbelot, Biblioth. Orientale,s. v.Lokman.

274.Tabari,i.p.432.

275.Koran, Suraxxvi.v.153.

276.Ibid.xi.v.67.

277.Tabari,i.c.xlv.

278.Weil,pp.48-61; Abulfeda,p.21.

279.Pirke of Rabbi Eliezer,c.xi.

280.Ibid.c.xxiv.

281.Ibid.c.xi.

282.Targums,ed.Etheridge,i.p.187.

283.Bechaji, Comm. in 1 Mos.xi.; Pirke ofR.Eliezer,c.xi.; Talmud, Sanhedrim, 109a; Targums,i.pp.189-90, &c.

284.Talmud, Sanhedrim; see also the history of Nimrod in Yaschar,pp.1107-8.

285.Herbelot,s. v.Nimroud.

286.Hist. Dynast.,p.12.

287.Mémoires conc. les Chinois,i.p.213.

288.Euseb., Præp. Ev.,ix.14; Cory, Ancient Fragments,pp.34-50.

289.George Syncellus, Bibl. Græc.,v.p.178.

290.Euseb., Præp. Ev.,ix.17.

291.Mos. Chorene,i.9.

292.Müller, Glaubenu.Wissen.d.Hindus; Mainz, 1822,i.p.303.

293.Allgem. Hist.d.Reisen,vi.p.602.

294.Luken,p.287; Amerikanische Urreligionen,p.517, &c.

295.Humboldt, Ansichtend.Cordilleren,i.p.42.

296.For the Rabbinic traditions relating to Abraham I am indebted to the exhaustive monograph of Dr.B.Beer,“Leben Abraham’s nach Auffassung der jüdischen Sage,”Leipzig, 1859, to which I must refer my readers for references to Jewish books, which are given with an exactitude which leaves nothing to be desired.

297.Weil,p.69.

298.The Mussulman history of the patriarch relates that Azar brought Abraham before Nimrod and said, “This is thy God who made all things.” “Then why did he not make himself less ugly?” asked Abraham,—for Nimrod had bad features.

299.The Mussulman story, which is precisely the same as the Jewish, adds that the camels refused to bear wood to form the pyre, but cast it on the ground; therefore Abraham blessed the camels. But the mules had no compunction, therefore he cursed them that they should be sterile. The birds who flew over the fire were killed, the city was enveloped in its smoke, and the crackling of its flames could be heard a day’s journey off.

300.Weil,p.73.

301.Both the Rabbinic commentators and the Mussulman historians tell a long story about the discussion carried on between Gabriel and Abraham in the air, as he was being shot into the flames. It is hardly worth repeating.

302.Tabari,i.p.147.

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