Note 289 — Chapter V · THE MOST PROMINENT FIGURES IN HEBREW MYTHOLOGY.
R. (Russell) Martineau translation
It is well known that the story of Jonah was long ago connected with the myth of Herakles and Hesione, or that of Perseus and Andromeda (Bleek, Einleitung ins A. T., Berlin 1870, p. 577). Tylor, Primitive Culture, I. 306, should also be consulted. What Emil Burnouf says in his La Science des Religions, Paris 1872, p. 263, is quite untenable; he finds in the myth ‘un image de la naissance du feu divin et de la vie dont il est le principe.’