Bread upon the Waters

Midrash Aggadah Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 381

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 22, 2025

Bread upon the Waters.

Yebamot, f. 121b.

cf. Baba Batra, f. 74 a to b.

Tanh. Numb. Hukkat 1.

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Abot de R. Nathan, ch. 3.

Gen. R. ch. 22.

cf. Numb. R. 18 § 22.

Eccles. R. II, i;V, 8 §5; XI, 1 §1.

Alphab. Siracid. ed. Steinschneider, f.4bf.

Maase Buch No. 194.

Helvicus, Historien I, ch. 23, p. 102.

Tendlau, Fellmeier,

No. 9.

Singer, Sagengeschichte Z. V.Vlksd. II, p.300.

Cosquin, Contes, No. 7.

Pedersen, Zur Albanes. Vlksd. No. 11.

Cock & Master.

Ibn Hisdai, Mashal Ha- kadmoni, Steinschneider, Manna, No. 12, p. 72.

Herb of Life.

Farhi, O. P. I, f. 36; III, f. 25.

Dukes, Blumenlese, p. 73, note 3.

Shamir. Koran, Sure 21, 82; 38, 36.

Apollodor III, 3, 1.

Glaucus & Polyidus.

254

Bolte & Polivka, I,

P. 126.

Clous ton, Pop. Tales & Fiction, I, p. 242 f; 249.

cf. Diez, Merkwiirdig- keit v. Asien, I, 106 ff. Grimm, R.&H.M.N0.16. cf. Habicht, 1001 Nights I, p. 20—26.

Hahn, Griechische Mar- chen, No. 3. var. a and 64, var. 1 and 3. Jataka, in JFLS.

IV, 1886, p. 173. Gayangos, Libro de los Gatos, No. 28. Rohde, Gr. Roman.

p. 125, f. Note, cf. Rochholz, Deutscher Glaube u. Brauch,

I, 261.

Schleicher, Litauische Marchen, p. 57, 59. Scott, Tales p. 261. Codd. G. 246, f. 35b to 36b; 259, f. 4a to 6 a.

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