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See further, Ronald S. Hendel, “The Exodus in Biblical Memory,” Journal of Biblical Literature 120 (2001), pp. 601–622.

Abraham Malamat, “Let My People Go and Go and Go and Go,” BAR 24:01.

Michael Massing, “As Rabbis Face Facts, Bible Tales Are Wilting” The New York Times, March 9, 2002.

Daniel Lazare, “False Testament,” Harper’s Magazine, March 2002, pp. 39–47.

Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, trans. Rosemary Sheed (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1958; repr. Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1996), p. 29. This is actually based on a quotation from the 14th-century Franciscan William of Ockham.

H.W.F. Saggs, The Encounter with the Divine in Mesopotamia and Israel (London: Athlone Press, 1978), p. 15. I have frequently heard this marvelous quotation attributed to me. Alas, it is not so. I only wish I had said it first.

Maximilian Streck, Assurbanipal und die letzten Assyrischen Könige bis zum Untergange Niniveh’s, Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 7 (Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat, 1916), p. 55.

Riekele Borger, Die Inschriften Asarhaddons, Königs von Assyrien, Archiv für orientforschung 9 (Graz: Weidner, 1956), Esarhaddon 14 Ep 8a:44.

Erra Epic I.127–129. Translation from Luigi Cagni, The Poem of Erra, Sources from the Ancient Near East, ed. Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati (Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1977).

This translation is from Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muse: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1993), pp. 779–780.