Elijah, Slave & Builder

Midrash Aggadah Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 415
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Elijah, Slave & Builder. Yalk. Reubeni, Gen. f. 9b.

Eliah Cohen, Meil Se- daka, § 568.

Farhi, O. P. I, f. 28. Sef. Hamaasiyot, ed. Araki Cohen, ch. 104.

Eisenstein, Oser, p. 325. Yalk. Sip. II, p. hi. Tendlau, Sagen3, No. 3. Ben Gorion II, p. 234,

355-

cf. St. Thomas, Acta Apost. Apoc. I, p. 251 ff.—

Building Overnight.

cf. Grimm, D. Mytho- logie2, 5i5ff; 4, 453ff. Grimm, R.&H. M. Ill,

p. 158.

Habicht,iooiNights VII 335 th night Aladdin. Haltrich, No. 29.

Cod. G. 942, f. 24 b.

263

Themes

Angels Elijah

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