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We are aware that the text of Amos 7:7–8 is problematic and that this translation is not universally accepted.

Naveh and Shaked, Magic Spells and Formulae, p. 22.

See H.S. Versnel, “Beyond Cursing: The Appeal to Justice in Judicial Prayer,” in Magica Hiera, ed. C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 60–106.

Tablet 12 in Gager, Curse Tablets, p. 65.

Amulet 10 in Naveh and Shaked, Amulets and Magic Bowls, p. 87.

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.143.1; cited in Gager, Curse Tablets, p. 10.

Stanley Tambiah, “The Magical Power of Words,” Man 3 (1968), pp. 177–206.

John G. Gager, Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992), p. 11.

Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked, Magic Spells and Formulae: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1993), p. 60.

Hans Dieter Betz, ed., Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, 18b.5–7, 47.14.