Tabari, i. p. 364. Footnote 526: Ibid., i. c. lxxv. Footnote 527: Targum of Palestine, i. p. 561. Footnote 528: Jalkut Rubeni, fol. 117, col. 1. Footnote 529: Jalkut Rubeni, fol. 107, cols. 2, 3. Footnote 530: Ibid., fol. 107, col. 3. Footnote 531: Tabari, i. p. 371; also Midrash, fol. 30. Footnote 532: Parascha R. Bechai, fol. 116. Footnote 533: Talmud, Tract. Hajada, fol. 12, col. 2. Footnote 534: Talmud, Tract. Joma, fol. 75, col. 1. Footnote 535: This is sanctioned by Scripture: “_Thou feddest Thine own people with angels’ food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their labour, able to content every man’s delight, and agreeing to every taste._” (Wisdom, xvi. 20.) Footnote 536: Talmud, Tract. Joma, fol. 75, col. 1; Schemoth Rabba, fol. 115, col. 4. Footnote 537: To this tradition perhaps David refers, Ps. xxiii. 5, lxxviii. 19. Footnote 538: Targum of Palestine, i. pp. 499, 500. Footnote 539: Jalkut Shimoni, fol. 73, col. 4. Footnote 540: Targum of Palestine, i. pp. 501, 502. Footnote 541: Tabari, i. p. 393. Footnote 542: Koran, Sura ii. v. 54. Footnote 543: Tabari, i. p. 394; but also Deut. viii. 4, Nehemiah ix. 21. Footnote 544: 1 Cor. x. 4. Footnote 545: Tabari, i. p. 373. Footnote 546: See my “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,” article on S. George. I have no doubt whatever that El Khoudr, identified by the Jews with Elias, is the original of the Wandering Jew. I did not know this when I wrote on the “Wandering Jew” in my “Curious Myths,” but I believe this to be the key to the whole story. Footnote 547: Weil, pp. 176-81; Tabari, i. c. lxxvi.; Koran, Sura xviii. Footnote 548: Voltaire has taken this legend as the basis of his story of “Zadig.” Footnote 549: Targums, ii. pp. 380, 381. Footnote 550: Weil, p. 175. Footnote 551: Targums, ii. p. 382. Footnote 552: Weil, p. 176. Footnote 553: Targums, ii. p. 386. Footnote 554: Tract. Kethuvoth, fol. 111, col. 2. Footnote 555: Targum of Palestine, ii. p. 390. Footnote 556: Targums, ii. p. 391. Footnote 557: Tabari, i. c. lxxvii.; Weil, pp. 182, 183; Abulfeda, p. 33. Footnote 558: Eisenmenger, ii. p. 305. Possibly the passage Zech. ix. 11, 12, may contain an allusion to this tradition. Footnote 559: Ibid., p. 342. Footnote 560: Pirke R. Eliezer, c. 45. Footnote 561: Perhaps the passage Isai. xl. 4 may be an allusion to this tradition. Footnote 562: Talmud, Tract. Beracoth, fol. 54, col. 2; Targum of Palestine, ii. pp. 411-13. Footnote 563: Talmud, Tract. Beracoth, fol. 54, col. 2; Targums, ii. p. 416; Yaschar, p. 1296. Footnote 564: Talmud, Tract. Sopherim, fol. 14, col. 4. Footnote 565: Ibid., Tract. Nida, fol. 24, col. 2. Footnote 566: Jalkut Cadasch, fol. 16, col. 2. Footnote 567: Eisenmenger, i. p. 389. Footnote 568: Talmud, Tract. Sopherim, fol. 14, col. 4. Footnote 569: