G. B. iii. 177.
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G. B. iii. 159, 160.
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G. B. iii. 177.
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G. B. iii. 152.
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G. B. iii. 159.
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Ezra ii. 2; Nehemiah vii. 7.
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Esther ii. 7.
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Encyclop. Bibl. s.v. 'Esther.'
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Jastrow, p. 686, note 2.
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Encyclop. Bibl. s.v. 'Esther.'
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G. B. iii. 158, 159.
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Jastrow does not indicate that, in the ancient poem on Eabani, he did 'return to the upper world.' But see L. W. King, Bab. and Ass. Rel. and Myth. p. 146.
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G. B. iii. 178.
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Jastrow, p. 513.
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G. B. iii. 179.
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G. B. iii. 180.
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G. B. iii. 181-184. Laing's Knox, ii. 157-160.
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Hyde, Hist. Bel. Pers.(1760), p. 250, says that some call this ride an innovation, but they are wrong, and the ride is very ancient, in his opinion. G. B. iii. 183.
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Purim, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Religion, p. 51. Von Paul de Lagarde, Gottingen, 1887.
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G. B. iii. 183.
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G. B. iii. 184.
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G. B. ii. 186.
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G. B. iii. 183.
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Nehemiah vii. 7; Ezra ii. 2.
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G. B. iii. 158, 159.
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