Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

The Ox. ms . reads 150, and refers the event to two years after Joseph’s death. The text of the Cam. ms . gives an impossible result here, as it would make Zebulun twenty-eight years younger than Joseph, who died at the age of 110. According to the Ox. ms. , Reuben (cf. c. 1) and Zebulun would die in the same year, the former at 125, the latter 150. A comparison of Test. Reub ., c. 1 shows the most probable solution to be to give the numerals, ριδ', β' .

The derivation of Zebulun seems to be from זבל , a collateral form of זבר , to give. Hence Leah plays on the double meaning of the former verb, Gen. xxx. 20 .

Cf. the Targum Ps. Jon. on Gen. xxxvii. 28 .

[ Deut. xxv. 7, 8, 9 . See Lardner on the animus of these quotations from Enoch, as it strikes him, vol. ii. p. 350.]

Cam. ms. διὰ τραγλοκολπητῶν ; Ox. ms. διὰ τρωγλοδυτῶν .

[“Finis non determinat probitatem actus.”]

Mal. iv. 2 .

The Ox. ms. reads: “And ye shall return from your land, and ye shall see the Lord in Jerusalem for His name’s sake.” [ Heb. vii. 2 . At least, Salem is His name.]

[Another of those unequivocal passages which refute Lardner’s charge of “Unitarianism” in this book.]

[ Ezek. xlviii. 26, 27 . An important example of Hebrew exposition of this prophet.]