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Rh order to protect the Jews. Some instances will be mentioned in Section II. in connection with legends possibly founded on facts. IX P. 51. Dhu'lkarnein.—See Sale’s Koran, Chandos Classics Edition, chap. xviii. pp. 224-225 and foot-notes.

P. 54, Elijah’s cave on Carmel.—For other particulars concerning this place and the “treatment’’ here practised, see Dr Thomson’s “The Land and the Book” (1886), vol. i. p. 329 ff.

X P. 62. Simon the Just.—It seems now to be conclusively established that this was Simon II., and that Josephus (Antip. Book XII. chap. ii. 5) was mistaken in identifying him with Simon I. G. (See Derembourg, 47-51; Dean Stanley’s “Jewish Church,” vol. iii. p. 247.)

P. 62. The thirty-third of ’Omer.—That is the thirty-third day after the fifteenth of Nisan and the second of Passover, when a sheaf (omer) of barley was offered to God in the Temple as the firstfruits of the coming harvest (Lev. xxiii, 10). This eighteenth of Iyyar is also celebrated as the anniversary of the disappearance of a plague in the days of Rabbi Akiba. (See Friedlænder, “Text-book of the Jewish Religion,” 27, and note 34, “ Tales told in Palestine,” p. 219.)

P. 62-64. Compare 3 Macc. i. 28, 29; ii. 21-24; with Dean Stanley’s “Jewish Church,” vol. iii. p. 248.