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Thorkild Jacobsen, “The Graven Image,” in Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross, ed. Patrick Miller et al. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987), pp. 15–32.

For synopsis and sources, see Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1911), vol. 3, p. 122; vol. 6, p. 51 n. 266.

Pirqey de’Rabbi Eliezer 45.

Meir Malul, “Adoption of Foundlings in the Bible and Mesopotamian Documents: A Study of Legal Metaphors in Ezekiel 16:1–7,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 46 (1990), pp. 97–126.

This definition is confirmed by the one biblical occurrence that is not applied to Caleb. In 1 Kings 11:6, Solomon and David are contrasted, and it is pointed out that Solomon sinned (in taking many wives) but David “filled after YHWH.”

See Gordon J. Wenham, Genesis 16-50, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 2 (Dallas: Word Books, 1994), pp. 176–177; and Stanley D. Walters, “Jacob Narrative,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 3, ed. David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992), p. 599.

Frank L. Benz, Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions: A Catalog, Grammatical Study, and Glossary of Elements, Studia Pohl 8 (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1972), pp. 131–132, 331.

J.J. Stamm, Die Akkadische Namengebung, in Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Aegyptischen Gesellschaft, vol. 44 (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs Verlag, 1939), p. 12 n. 2.

Othniel Margolith, “Keleb: Homonym or Metaphor?” Vetus Testamentum 33:4 (1983), p. 492.