Chapter VIII

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Footnote 73:

Translated and given as an Appendix to this volume.—TR.

Footnote 74:

How readily Alexander’s history was combined with the Solar myth is best proved by the fact that Arabian tradition gives Alexander a Sun-name, the variously interpreted Ḏû-l-karnein = the Horned, i.e. the Beaming.

Footnote 75:

Translated and given as an Appendix to this volume.—TR.

Footnote 76:

_Wayyiḳrâ rabbâ_, sect. XIX.: hishchîr we-heʿerîbh.

Footnote 77:

See Gesenius, _Thesaurus_, p. 1406. _b._

Footnote 78:

See Hermann Cohen’s dissertation, _Die dichterische Phantasie und der Mechanismus des Bewusstseins_, in the _Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie_, &c. 1869, VI. 239 _et seq._

Footnote 79:

On the German legends in which this idea occurs see Henne-Am-Rhyn, _Die deutsche Volkssage_, Leipzig 1874, p. 268 _et seq._

Footnote 80:

See Ps. LXXIV. 13–14; LXXXIV. 11. There is nothing to justify those interpreters who, caring nothing for the remains of ancient myths, always wish to understand by _Rahabh_ and _Tannîn_ the kingdom of Egypt.

Footnote 81:

Angelo de Gubernatis, _Zoological Mythology_, II. 217. On the meaning of milk and honey in the Hebrew myth, Steinthal has written exhaustively in his Treatise on the Story of Samson, given in the Appendix.

Footnote 82:

See Weber in the _Zeitschrift der D. M. G._, 1855, IX. 238.

Footnote 83:

Al-Meydânî, _Majmaʿ al-amthâl_, II. 203.

Footnote 84:

_Korân_, Sûr. V. v. 69.

Footnote 85:

_Sonne, Mond und Sterne_ [i.e. Bd. I. of _Die poetischen Naturanschauungen_, &c.], p. 4.

Footnote 86:

_Die Naturgeschichte der Sage_, I. 127.

Footnote 87:

See Excursus A.

Footnote 88:

Such names have often planted themselves firmly in popular tradition, and are accordingly mentioned in various quarters with perfect uniformity. So e.g. Ιαννῆς and Ιαμβρῆς, who appear both in Rabbinical writings and in 2 Tim. III. 8 (see Jablonski, _Opuscula_, ed. Te Water, II. 23).

Footnote 89:

See Wilhelm Bacher’s treatise, _Kritische Untersuchungen zum Prophetentargûm_ (_Zeitschrift der D. M. G._ 1874, XXVIII. 7).

Footnote 90:

_Leben Abraham’s nach Auffassung der jüdischen Sage_, Leipzig 1859. Another good compilation is that of Hamburger, _Geist der Hagada_, Leipzig 1857, I. 39–50.

Footnote 91:

_Bêth ham-midrâsh: Sammlung kleiner Midrashim und vermischter Abhandlungen aus der jüdischen Literatur_, ed. Ad. Jellinck, Vienna 1873, V. 40.

Footnote 92:

Max Müller, _Essays_ [German translation of _Chips_], II. 147; not in the English.

Footnote 93:

Rigveda, L. 8; CCCXCIX. 9.

Footnote 94:

_Sonne, Mond und Sterne_, p. 4.

Footnote 95:

Bab. Bâbhâ bathrâ, fol. 16. _b._

Footnote 96:

See Kuhn, _Ueber Entwickelungsstufen der Mythenbildeng (Abhandl. der kön. Akad. d. W._ 1873, Berlin 1874), p. 144.

Footnote 97:

Berêshîth rabbâ, sect. 68.

Footnote 98:

See on the other side Ewald, _History of Israel_ (2nd or 3rd ed.), II. 214.

Footnote 99:

Welcker, _Griechische Götterlehre_, Gottingen 1857, I. 66.

Footnote 100:

I find this identification, it is true, only in later books, Tânâ de-bhê Elîyâ, c. 27; Sêder ʿôlâm, c. 21; see Halâkhôth gedôlôth (hilkhôth haspêd). In the Sêder had-dôrôth, under the year 2189, Beor is called son of Laban. On Laban see Chap. V. § 11. Besides the name Loḳmân, which in signification corresponds with Bileʿâm (Balaam), we find in the Preislamite genealogy of the Arabs, which in my opinion is largely mixed up with mythical names, the chief Balʿâʾu, who is said to have been a leper (Ibn Dureyd, _Kitâb al-ishtiḳâḳ_, p. 106. 8). It should be observed that this is a man’s name with the grammatical form of a feminine adjective.

Footnote 101:

See Chap V. § 10 end.

Footnote 102:

Sôṭâ, fol. 10. _a._

Footnote 103:

See Excursus B.

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