84 The familiar title of Porphyry’s book on vegetarianism, Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων, will occur to every one. Epiphanius himself explains the word in Haer. 18, 1, “they (Nasaraei) thought it unlawful to eat meat.” 85 Haer. 9, 3; cf. 30, 2: “The Ebionites, like the Samaritans, avoid touching an outsider.” A still more extreme fastidiousness on this point is attributed by Josephus to the Essenes; cf. B. J. ii, 8, 10. 86 Photius, Bibliotheca Codicum, cod. 280 (ed. Bekker, p. 285). 87 The Kitab al-Anwār was published in 937, not 637, as by a misprint on p. xviii. 88 Schechter’s translation, Introduction, p. xviii. 89 Schechter, p. xxxvii, n. 21. 90 Founder of a Jewish sect which arose in Persia about the end of the seventh century. 91 On this point see above, p. 362. 92 Quoted in the original by Poznanski, Revue des études juives, vol. xliv (1902). p. 162, n. 2. 93 Quoted by Poznanski, l. c., p. 170. 94 Harkavy attributed it conjecturally to Sahl ben Masliah; Poznanski, whom Dr. Schechter follows, thinks it more likely that the author was Hasan ben Mashiah. 95 As the Karaites do. See e.g. Mishna, Rosh ha-Shana, 1 7 ff., 2 1 f. 96 See Poznanski, Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. x (1898), pp. 159, 248, 273. 97 Quoted in the original by Poznanski, Revue des études juives, vol. xliv, p. 176.—The point is that the “Zadokite” writings known to the author said nothing about fixing the beginning of the month by observation. Saadia doubtless based his assertion, not on anything he found in “Zadokite” books, but on Rosh ha-Shanah 22 a-b. 98 Poznanski, l. c., p. 177; cf. also Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. x, pp. 246 ff.—Saadia probably means that “Zadok” argued from the fact that the 150 days of Gen. 7 24, 8 3, make an even five months (7 11, 8 4), that each month had thirty days (cf. Jubilees 5 27), while for the Karaites thirty days was only the extreme length of a lunar month. See Poznanski, Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. x, p. 241. 99 See above, p. 359 f. 100 In “Belial is let loose,” Mr. Margoliouth finds a witless pun on Paul’s apostolic claims.