Preface

In this version, there several instances of Arabic or Hebrew words with more than one character. At this time such bidirectional text cannot be reliably rendered. The author provided transliterations; however a separate Hebrew transliteration has been included here based on the scheme provided by the Society of Biblical Literature. These appear in bold as yĕšārĕtû in order to indicate where these characters appear in the text. The same has been done for the few Arabic and Aramaic words.

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