Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis

by Robert Graves

  29 Mid. Konen, 33–34.

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  GLOSSES ON THE CREATION STORY

  30 PRE, ch. 3; cf. Gen. Rab. 3–4, 20; B. Hagiga 12a.

  31 Tanhuma Buber Gen. 8; Gen. Rab. 31 and 75, and parallel sources.

  32 Yer. Hagiga 77C mid.

  33 Gen. Rab. 75; cf. Pesiqta Hadta, 59; Mid. Konen, 35–36; B. Hagiga 12a; based on Isa. XXXIV. 11; XIV. 19 and Job XXVI. 7.

  34 Mid. Konen, 25.

  35 Gen. Rab. 34–35; Seder Rabba diBereshit, 314; Mid. Aseret Hadibrot, 63; Mid. Tehillim, 414; PRE, ch. 5.

  36 Sefer Raziel, 315.

  37 PRE, ch. 5; Mid. Tehillim, 415; Ex. Rab. 15, 22; Num. Rab. 18.22; Tanhuma Hayye Sara 3, p. 32b.

  38 Gen. Rab. 17.

  39 B. Baba Bathra 73a.

  40 Yer. Sanh. 29a bot.; Mid. Shemuel, ch. 26; Yalqut Reubeni i:4 f.; ii: 109; cf. Enoch LIX. 7–10; PRE, ch. 23; all based on Gen. VII. 11.

  41 Genesis XLIX. 25; Ezekiel XXXI. 4; XXVI. 19; XXXI. 15; Job XXXVIII. 16.

  42 Gen. Rab. 122, 294; B. Taanit 25b.

  43 Yalqut Reubeni, i:4 ff., 22; ii: 109; Mid. Adonay Behokhmah, 63; Seder Arqim, 70a; B. Yoma 54b; PRE, ch. 35; Mid. Tehillim, 91; Zohar iii. 322; cf. Patai, Man and Temple, 85.

  44 Mid. Tehillim, 404; Num. Rab. 15.7.

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  EARLIER CREATIONS

  45 Gen. Rab. 23, 68, 262–63.

  46 Mid. Tehillim, 391; PRE, ch. 3.

  47 PRE, ch. 3; cf. Gen. Rab. 20.

  48 Yalqut Reubeni, i:22, quoting Sode Raza.

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  THE PRIMEVAL MONSTERS DESCRIBED

  49 B. Baba Bathra 74b; Num. Rab. 18.22; Mid. Wayosha, 46.

  50 Mid. Wayosha, 47; Mid. Sekhel Tobh, 182; Ginzberg, LJ, I. 156; V. 26; Isaiah LI. 9; Psalm LXXIV. 13; Isaiah XXVII. 1; Job VII. 12; Ezekiel XXIX. 3–4 and XXXII. 2–6; cf. Psalm CXLVIII. 7; Psalms of Solomon II. 25–32; Gunkel, Schöpfung und Chaos, 78 ff.

  51 Isaiah XXVII. 1; Psalm LXXIV. 14; Job XL. 25–32; XLI. 2–26.

  52 Psalm LXXIV. 14; Isaiah XXVII. 1; Psalm CIV. 24–26; Job XL. 29; B. Baba Bathra 74b–75a; Gen. Rab. 52; Mid. Konen, 26; Alpha Beta diBen Sira B, 27a–28b, 36a; PRE, ch. 9; Targ. Yer. Gen. 1. 20; Mekhilta Bahodesh 7, 69b; Mekhilta diR. Shimon 109; Mid. Yonah, 98; Pesiqta diR. Kahana 188a; Apoc. Baruch XXIX. 4; B. Shabbat 77b; Pirke Rabbenu Haqadosh, 512a; Iggeret Baale Hayyim 3, 12.

  53 Apoc. Baruch XXIX. 4; Seder Rabba diBereshit, 9; Baraita diMaase Bereshit, 47; Pesiqta Rabbati, 194b.

  54 Kalir, in the piyyut Weyikkon Olam, following the Lamentations in the Roman Mahzor, ed. Mantova, 1712, p. 115; Pesiqta diR. Kahana, 188a; B. Baba Bathra 74b; Ginzberg, LJ, V. 45.

  55 B. Baba Bathra 74a.

  56 B. Baba Bathra 74b; B. Aboda Zara 3b; PRE, ch. 9; Mid. Yonah, 98; Sepher Hassidim, 476; cf. Zohar 2, 216.

  57 B. Baba Bathra 75a.

  58 B. Baba Bathra 75a; Mid. Alphabetot 438.

  59 Apoc. Baruch XXIX. 4; B. Baba Bathra 75a–b; Targum ad Ps. CIV. 26; cf. Pesiqta diR. Kahana 29, 188a–b; Mid. Alphabetot 438; Pirqe Mashiah 76.

  60 Lev. Rab. 13.3.

  61 4 Ezra VI. 47–52; Enoch LX. 7–8.

  62 Job XL. 15–24; Psalms I. 10; Mid. Konen, 26; PRE, ch. 11; Gen. Rab. 52.

  63 B. Baba Bathra 74b.

  64 Mid. Konen, 26; Pesiqta Rabbati, 80b–81a; Lev. Rab. 13.3; 22.10; Num. Rab. 21.18; PRE, ch. 11.

  65 Mid. Konen, 37; Mid. Adonay Behokhma, 64; Pesiqta Hadta, 48; Kalir, in the piyyut Weyikkon Olam, following the Lamentations in Roman Mahzor, ed. Mantova, 1712, p. 114b.

  66 Pesiqta diR. Kahana, 29, 188a–b; Mid. Alphabetot 98; Ginzberg, LJ, V. 43.

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  THE REEM AND THE ZIZ

  67 Psalms XXII. 22; XCII. 11; Job XXXIX. 9–10.

  68 Agudat Agadot 39; Ginzberg, LJ, I. 30–31.

  69 Mid. Tehillim 195, 395, 408.

  70 B. Baba Bathra 73b.

  71 Gen. Rab. 287; B. Zebahim 113b.

  72 See preceding note.

  73 Lev. Rab. 22.10; Mid. Tehillim 363; B. Gittin 31b; B. Baba Bathra 25a; Targ. Job III. 6; XXXVIII. 36; XXXIX. 13; B. Bekhorot 57b; B. Menahot 66b, B. Sukka 5a; B. Yoma 80a; Sifra 1.14; Gen. Rab. 173.

  74 B. Hullin 27b; Pesiqta diR. Kahana 35a; Tanhuma Buber Num. 122; Tanhuma Huqqat 6; Num. Rab. 19.3; Eccl. Rab. 7.23; Mid. Konen, 26; Philo, De Mundi Opif. 20; PRE, ch. 9; Targ. Yer. ad Gen. I. 20.

  75 Mid. Konen, 37–38; Mid. Adonay Behokhma, 65–66; Pesiqta Hadta, 48.

  76 Mid. Konen, 26; Lev. Rab. 22.10; Gen. Rab. 173; B. Gittin 31a; B. Baba Bathra 25a.

  77 B. Baba Bathra 73b.

  78 B. Bekhorot 57b; B. Menahot 66b; B. Yoma 80a.

  79 Mid. Tehillim 153.

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  THE FALL OF LUCIFER

  80 Isaiah XIV. 12–15; 2 Enoch XXIX. 4–5; Luke X. 18; 2 Cor. XI. 14; Septuagint and Vulgate to Isaiah XIV. 12–17; Targum Job XXVIII. 7.

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  THE BIRTH OF ADAM

  81 Agudat Agadot 77.

  82 Gen. Rab. 100; Mid. Agada Gen. 4; cf. Aptowitzer, HUCA VI. 212; Zohar, Gen. 92; Philo, De Mundi Opif. 13.

  83 Genesis I. 9–13, 20–27.

  84 Genesis II. 6–7; Philo, De Mundi Opif. 47; Yer. Shabbat 5b mid.; cf. Tanhuma Buber Gen. 23; Tanh. Noah 1, Wayiqra 53, Metzora 9; Gen. Rab. 126, 160; Yalqut Makhiri Prov. 20:25; Metzora 69; Baraita diMass. Nidda in Tosephta Atiqta; Abot diR. Nathan 117; Otzar Midrashim 10.

  85 Gen. Rab. 156; Num. Rab. 19:63; Mid. Tebillim 74; Pesiqta Rabb. 61b; Pesiqta diR. Kahana 34a, 36b; Mid. Qoheleth 7:27; Mid. Abkir, ed. Marmorstein, 131; Sepher Yuhasin 232; Otzar Midrashim 317; cf. Abot diR. Nathan 119; Josephus Flavius Ant. i.1.2; Siegfried, Philo von Alex. 391; Theodoret., Quaest. 60 in Gen.; Dillmann, Gen. 53; G. Rosen, ZDMG, 1858: 500; Grünbaum, ZDMG, 1877: 299.

  86 Gen. Rab. 132; Yer. Nazir 56b top; Mid. Hagadol, Gen. 73; Num. Rab. 4:8; Mid. Tehillim 92; Seder Eliyahu Zuta, 173; PRE, ch. 11 and 20: Apoc. Mos. ed. Tischendorf, 21; Mid. Konen, 27.

  87 Targum Yer. ad Gen. II. 7; Gen. Rab. 130–31; cf Mid. Abkir, 131; Philo, De Mundi Opif. 51; De Decalogo 8; De Somn. 1:3; Num. Rab. 14:12; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 73, 101; B. Sota 5a; cf. PRE, ch. 12; Otzar Midrashim 164.

  88 Mid. Konen, 27; Yerahme’el 15; Ginzberg, LJ, I. 54; V. 71, 72.

  89 B. Sanh. 38a–b.

  90 Targum Yer. ad Gen. II. 7; PRE, ch. 11.

  91 PRE, ch. 11; Rashi ad Gen. II. 7; Tanhuma Pequde 3; Tanhuma Buber Lev. 33; Gen. Rab. 54, 128; Mid. Tehillim 529.

  92 Gen. Rab. 54–56, 199, 23 of; Mid. Tehillim 529; Lev. Rab. 14.1: Tanhuma Buber Lev. 32; Yalqut, 34; Liqqutim 2; cf. Ginzberg, LJ, V. 64; Patai, Adam I:187.

  93 B. Baba Bathra 58a; Lev. Rab. 20.2.

  94 PRE, ch. 11; cf. Zohar Gen. 442; Lev. 214; Ephr. Syr. Gen. main part 1; Schatzhöhle 4; Hagoren, 40; Vita Adae, 12; B. Sanh. 59b; Abot diR. Nathan 5; Bereshit Rabbati 24; Eldad Hadani, 77 f.

  95 Abot diR. Nathan 23.

  96 Otzar Midrashim 70f., 428b; BHM iii. 59; Eldad Hadani 66; Hagoren, 40; Sepher Hassidim, 200; B. Hagiga 12a; Gen. Rab. 102, 178; PRE, ch. 11; cf. Lev. Rab. 14.1; 18.2; Pesiqta Rabbati 115b; Tanhuma Buber Lev. 37, etc.

  97 Sepher Hassidim, 290.

  98 Ex. Rab. 40.3.

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  ADAM’S HELPMEETS

  99 Genesis II. 18–25; III. 20.

  100 Genesis I. 26–28.

  101 Gen. Rab. 17.4; B. Yebamot 63a.

  102 Yalqut Reubeni ad. Gen. II. 21; IV. 8.

  103 Alpha Beta diBen Sira, 47; Gaster, MGWJ, 29 (1880), 553 ff.

  104 Num. Rab. 16.25.

  105 Targum ad Job I. 15.

  106 B. Shabbat 151b; Ginzberg, LJ, V. 147–48.

  107 Gen. Rab. 158, 163–64; Mid. Abkir 133, 135; Abot diR. Nathan 24; B. Sanhedrin 39a.

  108 Gen. II. 21–22; Gen. Rab. 161.

  109 Gen. Rab. 134; B. Erubin 18a.

  110 B. Erubin 18a.

  111 Gen. Rab. 55; Lev. Rab. 14.1: Abot diR. Nathan 1.8; B. Berakhot 61a; B. Erubin 18a; Tanhuma Tazri’a 1; Yalqut Gen. 20; Tanh. Buber iii. 33; Mid. Tehillim 139, 529.

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  112 Genesis II. 8–14; Ezekiel XXVIII. 13.

  113 Philo, De Mundi Opif. 60.

  114 Isaiah LI. 3; Joel II. 3.

  115 Ezekiel XXVIII. 16.

  116 Shet b. Yefet, Hem’at ha-Hemda 14a.

  117 BHM, ii. 52; Yalqut, Gen. 20; Zohar Hadash, p. 41.

  118 Zohar Hadash, Midrash Ruth, p. 158 (beginning “weamar R. Rahumai”).

  119 Zohar Hadash, p. 41.

  120 Zohar Genesis 250b.

  121 Zohar Exodus 39b.

  122 Gen. Rab. 744; PRE, ch. 20; Targum Yer. Genesis III. 23.

  123 Perek Shirah; Midrash Shir 42a; Seder Gan Eden 132–33, 194; cf. Slavonic Enoch (2 Enoch) VIII; Apoc. Mosis XXXVII; Yalqut Shir 982.

  124 Wertheimer, Bate Midrashot i. 284–85.

  125 B. Ketubot 77b.

  126 BHM, ii.28–30, 48–50.

  127 Genesis XXIV. 65; Tanhuma Buber Lev. 82; Lev. Rab. 26.7; and medieval sources cited by Ginzberg LJ, V. 263.

  128 Apoc. Mosis XXIX; Adamschriften 16; Mid. Tehillim 445, note 66.

  129 Joshua b. Shu‘aib, Derashot al haTorah, Constantinople, 1523, end of Terumah; referring to Exodus XXVI. 15 ff.

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  THE FALL OF MAN

  130 Genesis III. 1–6.

  131 Genesis III. 7–13.

  132 Genesis III. 14–19.

  133 Genesis III. 20–24.

  134 PRE, ch. 13; Gen. Rab. 172–74; B. Sanhedrin 29a; Adamschriften, 28.

  135 PRE, ch. 14; Gen. Rab. 196.

  136 Sources same as in preceding footnote.

  137 Adamschriften, 28–29.

  138 Gen. Rab. 200–01; Yalqut Gen. 34.

  139 Gen. Rab. 139–42.

  140 Sources same as in preceding footnote, and Ginzberg LJ, V. 97–98.

  141 Gen. Rab. 196; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 17–18.

  142 Sources same as in preceding footnote.

  143 Tanhuma Buber Gen. 133; Num. Rab. 4.8.

  144 Yalqut Gen. 34.

  145 Adamschriften, 24, 33.

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  SAMAEL’S REBELLION

  146 Vita Adae XIII. 1–16; cf. Hebrews I. 6; Rev. XII. 7–9; XX. 1–7.

  147 Bereshit Rabbati, 24–25. Cf. Gen. Rab. 155–56, where Adam’s rivals are the ministering angels.

  148 PRE, ch. 27; Bereshit Rabbati, 70.

  149 Pesiqta Rabbati, 95a, 203a; Yalqut Reubeni ad Gen. I. 3, vol. I. 19.

  150 2 Enoch XVIII. 1–6; cf. also chapter VII.

  151 Mid. Alphabetot 434.

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  THE BIRTHS OF CAIN AND ABEL

  152 PRE, ch. 21, with textual comments by Luria; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 88–89 and 105; B. Shabbat 146a; B. Yebamot 103b; B. Abodah Zarah 22b; Targum ad Gen. IV. 1 and V. 3; Gen. Rab. 182.

  153 Tosephta Sota IV. 17–18; Abot diR. Nathan i. 7–8; Gen. Rab. 168–69, 171–72; PRE, ch. 21; Yalqut ad Gen. IV. 1, par. 35.

  154 Vita Adae 18–21.

  155 Vita Adae 21; Apoc. of Moses 1; PRE, ch. 21; Genesis IV. 1.

  156 Vita Adae 21.

  157 Josephus, Ant. i.2.1; Philo, De Migr. Abrah. 13.

  158 Vita Adae 22–23; Apoc. of Moses 2, ed. Charles ii. 138; Adamschriften, 7, 42.

  159 B. Sanhedrin 38b; cf. Abot diR. Nathan 1st version, end; PRE, ch. 11; Pesiqta diR. Kahana 150b; Lev. Rab. 29, beginning; Pesiqta Rabbati 46; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 28; Tanhuma Shemini 8; Mid. Tehillim 92:3.

  160 Gen. Rab. 205, 214, 662; B. Yebamot 62a; Yer. Yebamot 11.4; B. Sanhedrin 38b; Targum Yer. ad Gen. IV. 1–2; PRE, ch. 11 and 21; Abot diR. Nathan 1.6; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 106; Yalqut Reubeni 35; Yalqut Psalms 840.

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  THE ACT OF LOVE

  161 Adambuch, 64–67.

  162 Gen. Rab. 204–05.

  16

  THE FRATRICIDE

  163 Genesis IV. 3–8.

  164 Zohar Hadash ad Gen. IV. 2; Gen. Rab. 207, 209; PRE, ch. 21; Theodotion ad Gen. IV. 4; Agadat Shir 40; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 107; Sepher Hayashar 3.

  165 Adamschriften 34; Targ. Yer. ad Gen. IV. 8; Mid. Leqah Tobh Gen. 30.

  166 Gen. Rab. 213; Tanhuma Bereshit 9; Mid. Hagadol Gen. 111; PRE, ch. 21; Zohar Gen. 54b.

  167 Schatzhöhle 8.

  168 Adambuch 70–72; Gen. Rab. 214–15; Agadat Shir 43, 91; Zohar Gen. 54b.

  169 Gen. Rab. 216; M. Sanhedrin 4.5; Agadat Shir 43, 91.

  170 Genesis IV. 10–11; Tanhuma Bereshit 9–10; Gen. Rab. 216–20; PRE, ch. 21; Mid. Leqah Tobh 30; Yalqut Reubeni ad Gen. IV. 15.

  171 Adamschriften 35, 43.

  172 PRE, ch. 21; Tanhuma Bereshit 10.

  173 Apoc. of Moses XL; Vita Adae XLVIII; Adamschriften 22; Adambuch 72–73; Enoch XXII. 7.

  174 Genesis IV. 17; Sepher Hayashar 5; Philo 77–78; Pseudo-Philo 113; Josephus, Ant. i.2.2.

  175 Jael’s deed, although celebrated by the Israelite leaders (Judges V. 24 ff), seems at first sight one of treachery. But it should be remembered that if Jael belonged to the Sons of Hamat—Kenites allied to Israel—her father’s enemies would be hers, even after marriage to Heber, unless he were present when they arrived; and that he was conveniently absent, perhaps on purpose, and thus escaped both his allies’ censure and the Israelites’ praise.

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  THE BIRTH OF SETH

  176 Tanhuma Buber Gen. 20; Gen. Rab. 195–96, 204, 225–26, 236; B. Erubin 18b; Pesiqta Rabbati, 67b.

  177 Gen. Rab. 54.

  178 See note 1.

  179 Adamschriften, 36; Genesis IV. 25.

  180 Adambuch, 75–77.

  181 Adamschriften, 8, 44.

  182 Genesis V. 4.

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  THE SONS OF GOD AND THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN

  183 Genesis VI. 1–7.

  184 Jubilees IV. 15, 22; V. 1; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 24.

  185 Yalqut Gen. 44; Bereshit Rabbati, 29–30.

  186 Sources as in preceding footnote.

  187 Sources as in preceding footnote.

  188 The Clementine Homilies viii. 11–17 (pp. 142–45). The Homilies are an early 3rd cent. A.D. Christian tract, written probably in Syria. Cf. also Enoch 6–8; 69; 106, 13 f.

  189 Sources as in preceding footnote.

  190 Zohar Genesis 37a, 55a.

  191 Liqqute Midrashim, 156; a somewhat different version in Yalqut Gen. 44.

  192 Sepher Hekhalot, 170–76.

  193 Zohar Genesis 37a.

  194 PRE, ch. 21 (where mishēm should be amended to read mishēth) and 22; cf. also Gen. Rab. 222; Adambuch, 75, 81–86; Adamschriften, 37; Schatzhöhle, 10.

  195 Adamschriften, 38; cf. Gen. Rab. 222–23.

  196 Sources as in preceding footnote, and PRE, ch. 22.

  197 Targ. and Targ. Yer. ad Gen. VI. 2–4; Gen. Rab. 247–48.

  198 Adambuch, 92–93.

  199 Enoch IX–X; cf. also chapters XI–XV and LXIX; 2 Baruch LVI. 11–16; 2 Enoch XVIII. 1–6.

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  THE BIRTH OF NOAH

  200 Tanhuma Noah 11; of. Gen. Rab. 224–25; Sepher Hayashar, 7–8.

  201 Enoch CVI, ed. Charles, ii. 278; Genesis Apocryphon 40; Jubilees IV. 28.

  202 Sources as in footnote 1, and Genesis IV. 22.

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  THE DELUGE

  203 Adamschriften 39; Sepher Hayashar 16–17.

  204 B. Sanhedrin 108b; PRE, ch. 22–end.

  205 Genesis VI. 13–22; VII. 1–3; PRE, ch. 23.

  206 Genesis VI. 15–16; PRE, ch. 23.

  207 Gen. Rab. 253, 287; PRE, ch. 23; B. Nidda 61a; B. Zebahim 113b; Hadar 59a; Da’at Huqqat 18a.

  208 PRE, ch. 23; Gen. Rab. 287, 293; Tanhuma Noah 12; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 36, 45; B. Sanhedrin 108a–b; Sepher Hayashar 17.

  209 Genesis VII. 11–16; Gen. Rab. 293; B. Berakhot 59a; B. Rosh Hashana 11b–12a; PRE, ch. 23; Sepher Hayashar 18.

  210 Genesis VII. 20; B. Sanh. 108b; B. Rosh Hashana 12a; B. Zebahim 112a; Lev. Rab. 7.6; Tanhuma Noah 7; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 35–36; Sepher Hayashar 18–19.

  211 Gen. Rab. 283; B. Sanhedrin 108b; PRE, ch. 23; Sepher Noah, BHM, iii, 158.

  212 Tanhuma Buber Gen.
29–30; 37–38; Gen. Rab. 287; Tanhuma Noah 2, 9; B. Sanhedrin 108b.

  213 PRE, ch. 23; B. Sanhedrin 108b.

  214 Gen. Rab. 286, 341; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 43; Tanhuma Noah 12; Yet. Taanit 64d; B. Sanhedrin 108b; PRE, ch. 23; Yalqut Reubeni ad Gen. VII. 7, p. 130.

  215 Genesis VII. 4, 17, 24; VIII. 1–7; B. Berakhot 59a; B. Rosh Hashana 11b–12a; B. Sanhedrin 108b; Alpha Beta diBen Sira, Otzar Midrashim 49a, 50b.

  216 Genesis VIII. 8–19.

  217 Genesis VIII. 20; IX. 17.

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  NOAH’S DRUNKENNESS

  218 Genesis IX. 20–28.

  219 Tanhuma Buber Gen. 48; Tanhuma Noah 13; Gen. Rab. 338; PRE, ch. 24; Jub. V 28; VII. 1.

  220 Tanhuma Noah 13; Gen. Rab. 338.

  221 Tanhuma Buber Gen. 48–49; Gen. Rab. 338–40; PRE, ch. 23.

  222 B. Sanhedrin 72a–b, 108b; B. Pesahim 113b; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 49–50; Tanhuma Noah 13, 15; Gen. Rab. 341.

  223 Gen. Rab. 272, 338–39; Tanhuma Buber Gen. 38; Tanhuma Noah 9; Lev. Rab. 20. 1; Bate Midrashot II. 237.

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  THE TOWER OF BABEL

  224 Genesis XI. 1–9; PRE, ch. 24.

  225 Mid. Hagadol Gen. 188; Gaster, Maasiyot 2; Ginzberg, LJ, V. 201, n. 87.

  226 Sepher Hayashar 22–31; Tanhuma Noah 18, 19.

  227 See preceding footnote.

  228 Sepher Hayashar 22–31; B. Sanhedrin 109a; PRE, ch. 24.

  229 See preceding footnote.

  230 PRE, ch. 24.

  231 PRE, ch. 24.

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  ABRAHAM’S ANCESTRY

  232 Genesis XI. 10–32; XX. 12.

  233 Jubilees XI. 1–15; B. Baba Bathra 91a; PRE, ch. 26.

  234 Genesis XI. 10–32.

  235 Jubilees XI. 1–15.

  236 Genesis XI. 26–27; Sepher Hayashar 27.

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  ABRAHAM’S BIRTH

  237 Sepher Hayashar 24–27; PRE, ch. 26.