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Repointing nesukoti, from suk, to anoint, with Mitchell Dahood, Psalms I (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966), p. 10.

I discuss the date of this Second Isaiah in Fried, “Cyrus the Messiah? The Historical Background to Isaiah 45:1, ” Harvard Theological Review 95:4 (2002), pp. 373–393.

For a recent history, see Pierre Briant, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire, trans. Peter Daniels (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002), pp. 13–44.

Diodorus Siculus 9.22; The Nabonidus Chronicle 2.1–4; the Babylonian Chronicle 3.14–15; Herodotus I:123–130.

The ancient sources are discussed by Sean McDonough in YHWH at Patmos (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999), pp. 58–122.

See Lienhard Delekat, “Yáho-Yahwáe und die alttestamentlichen Gottesnamenkorrekturen,” in Tradition und Glaube, ed. Gert Jeremias et al. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971), pp. 23–75.

This is one manifestation of “personal piety”; see “Personal Piety: A Direct Line to God” (sidebar) and the accompanying article by Ogden Goelet, “Moses’ Egyptian Name,” BR 19:03.

Martin Rösel, Adonaj—warum Gott “Herr” genannt wird (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000), p. 182.