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Footnote 1 - Taking the Heat in Struggle Over Biblical Poetry

Even Fitzgerald seems to be retreating from the use of meter, as I know from personal conversation.

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Footnote 2 - Bringing Miriam Out of the Shadows

But, see William H. Propp, “Did Moses Have Horns?” BR 04:01.

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Footnote 1 - Bringing Miriam Out of the Shadows

In this article, Bible translations are by Phyllis Trible or are adapted by Phyllis Trible from the Revised Standard Version (RSV). A few translations come directly from the RSV and are so identified.

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Footnote 1 - My View

Tanakh is the acronym for Torah (the five books of Moses), Nevi’im (the prophetic books) and Kethuvim (the writings). Together they compose the Hebrew Bible.

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Footnote 1 - Bible Books

B.C.E and C.E. are the religiously neutral designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D. They stand for “Before the Common Era” and “Common Era.”

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Footnote 10 - The Assassination of Eglon

The original author of the account must have really had a good time with it, but the redactor of Judges, who reduced it to writing, distilled it in part with a view to removing the broad humor.

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Footnote 9 - The Assassination of Eglon

The Yehawmilk inscription, from Persian-era Byblos, provides a parallel: the term mistarim, “the hidden,” denotes the recess under a temple floor. See Herbert Donner and Wolfgang Röllig, Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften (Weisbaden, West Germany: Harrassowitz, 1971), text #10, line 15.