18 Ernest I. Jacob

3. E. O. James , Myth and Ritual in the Ancient Near East(London , Thames and Hudson, 1958), p. 137.

4. Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, pp. 11-121. 5. James, p. 123.

6. Julian Morgenstern , Rites of Birth Marriage, Death and Kindred Occasions among the Semites(Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1966), Chap. 9 and 10.

7. Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, pp. 144-150.

8. Louis Epstein, Sex Laws and Customs in Judaism(New York , KTAV Publishing, 1948), pp. 104-131.

9.1bd..p.76, 10. Tbid., p. 83. 11. Ibid., pp. 83-93.

12. Hermann Strack und Paul Billerbeck , Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch(Munich , Oskar Beck, 1926), II p. 373.

13. Heinrich Graetz , Geschichte der Juden(Magdeburg , Albert Falckenberg, 1860), III, p. 97.

14.. Leisegang, p. 95; Josephus , Wars II 8.2.

15.. See the introduction of FF. Lachover and I. Tishbi in his monumental Mishnat HaZohar(Jerusalem , Mosad Bialik, 1957), to which this section is indebted.

16. Patai, The Jewish Goddess. 17. Tishbi, Mishnat Zohar 111, p. 290.

18.. Ibid, II, 610.