Transcriber’s Note:

Minor errors and omissions in punctuation and formatting have been silentlycorrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of thistext for details regarding the handling of any textual issuesencountered during its preparation.

In this version, there several instances ofArabic or Hebrew words with more than one character. At this timesuch bidirectional text cannot be reliably rendered. The author providedtransliterations; however a separate Hebrew transliteration has been includedhere based on the scheme provided by the Society of Biblical Literature.These appear in bold as yĕšārĕtû in order to indicatewhere these characters appear in the text. The same has been donefor the few Arabic and Aramaic words.

Footnotes, which appeared at the bottom of each page, have been gatheredat the end of the text, and hyperlinks provided for easy access.They havealso been renumbered consecutively in order establish the uniquenessrequired to facilitate searches. Any references to specific notes in thetext have been corrected to follow the new numbering.

The cover image has been fabricated and is placed in the public domain.