This conclusion of the loves of Zuleika and Joseph completes the romance, and makes it a most popular subject for poets in the East. Both Jewish and Mussulman traditions give Zuleika a very different character from that which Holy Scripture leads one to attribute to her. Footnote 423: Midrash, Jalkut, fol. 46. Footnote 424: Ibid. Footnote 425: Weil, p. 122. Footnote 426: Tabari, i. p. 247; taken from the Rabbinic Yaschar (Sepher Hajaschar), p. 1226. Footnote 427: Midrash, Jalkut, fol. 47; Yaschar, p. 1225; Berescheth Rabba, fol. 84, col. 4. Footnote 428: Yaschar, p. 1226. Footnote 429: This was the shirt given Abraham by Gabriel, to preserve him from the fire into which Nimrod cast him; it was fragrant with the odours of Paradise. Footnote 430: Koran, Sura xii.; Tabari, i. pp. 250, 251. Footnote 431: Yaschar, p. 1227. Footnote 432: Vita Asseneth, filiæ Potipharis; a Greek apocryphal book, in Fabricius, iii. p. 85. XXIX. THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS. The “Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs” is one of the seventy-two apocryphal books of the Old Testament which were at one time in circulation, and, according to Epiphanius, it formed one of the twenty-two canonical books sent by the Jews to Ptolemy, king of Egypt.[433] It is a work of Jewish origin, which has been tampered with and interpolated by Christian copyists. S. Augustine numbers it with the Apocrypha; he says, “There are the apocryphal books of the Old Testament: the works falsely attributed to Enoch, the Patriarchs, the Discourse of Joseph, the Assumption of Moses, the pseudographia of Abraham, Eldad and Medad, Elias the prophet, the prophet Zephaniah, Zechariah, Baruch, Habakkuk, Ezekiel, and Daniel.” Curiously enough, the Testament of the Patriarchs contains a large number of alleged quotations from the Book of Enoch, which are not, however, to be found in that book as we now have it. This Testament was read by the Jews at the time of Christ’s coming, and S. Paul seems to have been acquainted with it, for he quotes it, “_Awake, thou that steepest, and arise from the dead_;”[434] and again he quotes the Testament of Levi, “_The wrath is come upon them to the uttermost._”[435] S. Jerome remarks on this, “The Apostle Paul quoted from the hidden prophets and from those books which are called Apocrypha,” and he adds, “That he did so in several other places is very evident.”[436] And Origen says, “It is evident that many examples were quoted and inserted in the New Testament by the Apostles and the Evangelists from those Scriptures which we do not read as canonical, but these passages are found in the apocryphal books, and it is evident that these passages were extracted from them;” and he gives the reason why that was lawful to the Apostles which is not lawful to us.