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the founders, represented as the apostle of 

 monotheism, is undoubtedly Noah. Indeed, 

 a great deluge happened in his time. More- 

 over, Anuha planted the vine, and he is 

 always cited as an authority in speaking of 

 the making of wine. 1 



Finally, Ibrahim, the Canaanite (that is 

 to say of Palestine), is certainly, in spite 

 of what Dr. Chwolson 2 says about it, the 

 patriarch Abraham. He is represented in 

 " The Agriculture" as an apostle of mono- 

 theism, and as having denied the divinity 

 of the sun. Who can fail to recognise in 

 this the rabbinical fable, where Abraham, 

 filling the part of confessor of the faith, 

 holds victorious controversies against Nim- 

 rod and the idolatrous Chaldeeans ? Be- 

 sides, 3 Ibrahim, the Canaanite, is an Imam 

 who undertakes long journies to avoid the 

 famine which occurred in the days of the 



1 Page 62, note. See Ewald, Jahrbiicher, 1857, p. 291. Sama, 

 another Babylonian sage, classed with Hantikha, Adami, etc., in 

 the book of Tenkelusha, appears to me identical with Shem. 



2 Page 43. 



3 See especially Koran, xxxvii. 83 ff ; Ix. 4 ff. 



