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Endnote 1 - Peter: How a Flawed Disciple Became Jesus’ Successor on Earth

See John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew, vol. 1 (New York: Doubleday, 1991), p. 23.

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Endnote 1 - Bible Books

Chief Justice Moore’s monument has now been removed, pursuant to federal court decisions finding the monument’s presence in the Alabama State Judicial Building’s rotunda to be an unconstitutional governmental “establishment of religion.” After the U.S. Supreme Court refused a request to block the monument from being removed, Chief Justice Moore was suspended for refusing to comply with the federal court’s order that the monument must be removed.

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Endnote 1 - Seeing God

Hosea 12:4–5 (English 12:3–4) in alluding to Jacob’s wrestling match seems to reflect ancient ambivalence about the nature of Jacob’s opponent; the verse ambiguously parallels “God” and “angel.” Unfortunately, the Hebrew text of Hosea is notorious for its bad state of preservation; textual problems in these verses frustrate attempts at a definitive translation.

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Endnote 4 - Should Cheeseburgers Be Kosher?

For a fuller exposition of these ideas with ample bibliographic and textual citations, see Jack M. Sasson, “Ritual Wisdom? On ‘Seething a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk,’” pp. 294–308, in Ulrich Hübner and Ernst Axel Knauf, eds., Kein Land für sich Allein: Studien zum Kulturkontakt in Kanaan, Israel/Palestina und Ebirnäri für Manfred Weippert zum 65 Geburtstag, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 186 (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag, 2002).