Solomon and the Queen of Saba

Similar things are said in the "Chibut hakebar" (knocking at the tomb) of the Rabbis.—Compare Maraccius, Prodrom., § iii., p. 90. p. 216 * The ancient name of Medina, where Mohammed died. p. 238 * Mohammed mentions this in the Koran as a fact. p. 242 * There is an allusion here to the peculiar ideas which both Mohammedans and Jews attach to the recitation of scriptural or imagined sacred words and sentences. They believe their bare reading or repetition valuable: 1. As being meritorious before God, independent of any reaction which it may produce on their heart and understanding. 2. Because every letter is supposed to possess a (cabalistic) charm acting with resistless power upon spirits, und even upon the Lord himself.—E. T.