Bible Review

For the details, see J. Needham and A Hughes, A History of Embryology, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1959).

See L. Edelstein, “The History of Anatomy in Antiquity” (1932), reprinted in his Ancient Medicine (ed. O. Temkin and C. L. Temkin; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1967; repr. 1987), pp. 247–301; see also H. von Staden, Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989).

The Eumenides by Aeschylus: A Translation and Commentary (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970) transl. H. Lloyd-Jones (slightly adapted) 657ff; pp. 51–52. Cf. also Euripides Orestes 552–553.

Ceslaus Spicq, L’épitre aux Hébreux (Paris: Gabalda, 1977), p. 188; L’épitre aux Hébreux (Paris: Gabalda, 1953) 2.348f. He refers to Henry J. Cadbury, “The Ancient Physiological Notions Underlying John I 13 and Hebrews XI 11, ” The Expositor, series 9, vol. 2 (1924), pp. 430–439.

See also the King James Version, the New English Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, etc.

Adon Olam; see Joseph Hertz, The Authorized Daily Prayer Book (New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1975), p. 8.

Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 88a.

Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 15a.

In Esther 2:4 the name STN (Satan) is formed by the second to the last letter of three successive words when read forward: ’Sr tyTb b‘yNy (asher titav b‘aynai, “who is good in the eyes of”). In Esther 2:3 the name STN is formed by the initial letter of three words when read backward: N‘rhbtwlh Twbt mr’h ’l-Swsm (na‘ara-betula tovat mar-eh el-Shushan, beautiful young Virgin to Susa”).