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HISTORICAL ANNOTATION 1011

429.39-430.1 The Hebrew prophets frequented dens and caves and desert places]
Douglass refers to Heb. 11:38. Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 3:100.

430.1 John saw his wonderful vision on the Isle of Patmos] Douglass refers to the
beginning of the book of Revelations, when the apostle John received a prophecy of
the end of the world. Rev. 1:9; Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 5:694.

430.2-3 Jacob wrestled with an angel] Douglass refers to an incident in Genesis
32:24-32, in which Jacob wrestles with an angel throughout a night. Although the
angel injures Jacob in the leg, Jacob emerges victorious. The angel blesses Jacob and
renames him Israel, "for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast
prevailed." Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 3:604-05 .

430.3 The transfiguration] Matt. 17:1-2; Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary,
6:640-41.

430.3-6 No wonder ... of my people."] An allusion to the events of Exod. 2:12-
15. 2:24-25, and particularly 3:7: "And the Lord said I have surely seen the affliction
of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmas-
ters: for I know their sorrows." Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 2:700-08.

430.6-7 Paul was not ... voice from heaven] Douglass refers to Acts 9:3-4, when
Saul, on his bloody path to persecute followers of Jesus in the city of Damascus, has
a revelation that his actions are wrong. He converted to Christianity, changed his
name to Paul, and became the foremost missionary of the teachings of Christ.
Freedman, Anchor Bible Dictionary, 5:186-201.

430.9 Mahomet] Muhammad (c. 570-632), the Muslim Prophet, received his
divine mission in his early forties, around the year 610. The Muslim scripture, the
Koran, was revealed to him at that time, and he became the main conduit for the
religion's modern rituals and practices, including Islam's monotheistic emphasis.
Michael Cook, Muhammad (New York, 1983).

430.16 Goshen] Goshen is a region in the eastern Egyptian delta where many
Hebrews lived during their time in Egypt. Jacob's family relocated to the "land of
Goshen" when a famine struck Canaan. Gen. 46:26-34; Freedman, Anchor Bible
Dictionary, 2:1076-77.

430.17-18 the story of Jacob] Following the family's move to Goshen, famine
led Jacob to send several of his sons to seek grain from the Pharaoh. Jacob's sons sold
their younger brother Joseph into slavery. Gen. 46:1-34, 47:1-5; Freedman, Anchor
Bible Dictionary 3:599-609.

430.33 the Nile] Stretching some 4. 160 miles. the Nile is the world's longest
river. It flows northward from its headwaters in remote Burundi in central Africa to
the delta on the Mediterranean Sea in northeast Egypt. The river's waters support 98
percent of Egypt's agriculture. Cohen, Columbia Gazetteer, 2:2187-88.

431.11 the Shaduf and the Sakiyeh] A shaduf, is a device consisting of a pole on
a pivot with a bucket at one end to raise water; a sakiyeh is a water wheel with a
number of buckets that raise water as the wheel turns. Both were often used in Egypt
to gather river water for irrigation purposes.