S. Baring-Gould

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

I. THE FALL OF THE ANGELS.

II. ADAM. 1. THE CREATION OF MAN.

III. EVE. 37

IV. THE FALL OF MAN.

V. ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE FALL.

VI. CAIN AND ABEL.

VII. THE DEATH OF ADAM.

VIII. SETH.

IX. CAINAN SON OF ENOS.

X. ENOCH. 1. THE TRANSLATION OF ENOCH.

XI. THE GIANTS.

XII. LAMECH.

XIII. METHUSELAH.

XIV. NOAH.

XV. HEATHEN LEGENDS OF THE DELUGE.

XVI. THE PLANTING OF THE VINE.

XVII. THE SONS OF NOAH.

XVIII. RELICS OF THE ARK.

XIX. CERTAIN DESCENDANTS OF HAM.

XX. SERUG.

XXI. THE PROPHET EBER.

XXII. THE PROPHET SALEH.

XXIII. THE TOWER OF BABEL.

XXIV. ABRAHAM. 296 1. HIS YOUTH AND EARLY STRUGGLES.

XXV. MELCHIZEDEK.

XXVI. OF ISHMAEL AND THE WELL ZEMZEM.

XXVII. ESAU AND JACOB.

XXVIII. JOSEPH.

XXIX. THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS.

XXX. JOB.

XXXI. JETHRO.

XXXII. MOSES. 453 1. ISRAEL IN EGYPT.

XXXIII. JOSHUA.

XXXIV. THE JUDGES.

XXXV. SAMUEL.

XXXVI. SAUL. 1. WAR WITH THE PHILISTINES. GOLIATH SLAIN.

XXXVII. DAVID.

XXXVIII. SOLOMON. 658 1. HOW SOLOMON OBTAINED POWER.

XXXIX. ELIJAH.

XL. ISAIAH.

XLI. JEREMIAH.

XLII. EZEKIEL.

XLIII. EZRA.

XLIV. ZECHARIAH.

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LEGENDS
OF THE
PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS.

LEGENDS

OF THE

Patriarchs and Prophets

AND OTHER

OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTERS

FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

BY THE

REV. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.

Author of “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,” “The Origin and Development
of Religious Belief,” “In Exitu Israel,” etc.

NEW YORK:

AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE,

764 Broadway.

1881.