Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Book of Job, Literally Translated From the Original Hebrew, and Restored to Its Natural Arrangement: With Notes Critical and Illustrative; And an Introductory Dissertation on Its Scene, Scope, Language, Author, and Object
Here the account of Ishmael, or Ismael, (ml) breaks off abruptly in the Sacred Writings; which are chie?y intended as a history of the descendants of Abraham through the line of Isaac: and we are com pelled, in order to fill up the chasm, to have recourse to the Arabian historians, in Whose country Ismael was now residing, and of whose tribes he may be regarded as the head and common father. The Arabian writers make no mention of his marriage with an Egyptian, but distinctly relate the miracle of the well, which they affirm, for obvious reasons, but with a palpable deviation from the truth, was performed in the very spot on which Mecca, the birth-place of Mahomet, now stands. They assert that at this time the inhabi tants of Arabia consisted of two classes - ah elder.
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