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Umberto Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Exodus (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1967), p. 93.

For more on the plagues, see Ziony Zevit, “Three Ways to Look at the Ten Plagues,” BR 06:03.

More and more Christians also have become familiar with the Passover celebration in recent years, due partly to an increased awareness that the Last Supper may have been a Passover meal. On this question, see Baruch M. Bokser, “Was the Last Supper a Passover Seder?” BR 03:02, and Jonathan Klawans, “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Seder?” BR 17:05.

For further reading, see David T. Owen-Ball, “Rabbinic Rhetoric and the Tribute Passage (MT. 22:15–22; MK. 12:13–17; LK. 20:20–26),” Novum Testamentum 35:1 (1993), pp. 1–14; and “The Things That Are God’s: Reflections on Caesar’s Coin,” The Christian Century 115 (1988), pp. 1046–1047.

See David Daube, The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism, Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, vol. 2 (London: Athlone Press, 1956), p. 151.

See H.St.J. Hart, “The Coin of ‘Render unto Caesar …’ (A Note on Some Aspects of Mark 12:13–17; Matt. 22:15–22; Luke 20:20–26),” in Jesus and the Politics of His Day, Ernst Bammel and C.F.D. Moule, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), p. 252.

For a list of dozens of authors’ diverse interpretations of this passage, see J. Duncan M. Derrett, Law in the New Testament (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1970), p. 318 n. 2. For an example of the tendency to interpret this passage as discouraging civil disobedience, see Barth, “The Christian Community and the Civil Community,” in Karl Barth, Theologian of Freedom, ed. Clifford J. Green (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1989), pp. 273–274.

Justin, Dialogue with Trypho, ch. 56 (Christ as the “other god” who actually frames the cosmos; according to his reasoning, all seeming theophanies in the Old Testament are actually Christophanies, ch. 56–62).

George Ewart Bean, Journeys in Northern Lycia 1965–67, Deut. Akademie Wein philosophisch-historische Klasse 104 (1971) 20–22, no. 37.