Hebrew Myths (47 page)

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Psalm
XCIII. 3;
Jeremiah
XXXI. 35;
Job
IX. 13;
Psalm
LXXXIX. 11;
Job
XXVI. 12–13;
Isaiah
LI. 9;
Psalm
CIV. 6–8; LXXIV. 13–14;
Nahum
I. 4;
Psalm
XVIII. 15–16;
Isaiah
XL. 12;
Psalm
XXXIII. 7;
Jeremiah
V. 22;
Job
XXXVIII. 8–11.

⁶
Psalm
LXXIV. 17;
Job
XXXVIII. 5;
Psalm
CIV. 10–26;
Jeremiah
XXXI. 35.

⁷
Job
XXXVIII. 7.

⁸
Habakkuk
III. 3;
Psalm
CIV. 32.

⁹
Mid. Konen, 27.

¹⁰
B. Pesahim 94a.

¹¹
B. Pesahim 94a.

¹²
Mid. Konen, 27–31.

¹³
Num. Rab. 2.10; 3.12; Mid. Konen, 38; Pesiqta Hadta, 49.

¹⁴
PRE, ch. 3.

¹⁵
Mid. Konen, 32–33. In other sources somewhat different names are given, cf. Zohar Hadash, 20b.

¹⁶
Mid. Konen, 30, 35–36.

¹⁷
Mid. Konen, 36.

¹⁸
Mid. Konen, 36.

¹⁹
Gen. Rab. 176–77; B. Hagiga 12b.

²⁰
Cf. Ginzberg, LJ, V. 10.

²¹
Mid. Konen, 33.

²²
PRE, ch. 3.

²³
B. Baba Bathra 74a.

²⁴
B. Baba Bathra 25b.

²⁵
B. Hagiga 12b.

²⁶
Mid. Konen, 37.

²⁷
B. Hagiga 12b.

²⁸
2
Enoch
III–IX, and parallel rabbinic sources, Ginzberg, LJ, V. 158 ff.

²⁹
Mid. Konen, 33–34.

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 77
^C
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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

¹³⁰
Genesis
III. 1–6.

¹³¹
Genesis
III. 7–13.