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Cross, Epic to Canon, p. 89.

Frank Moore Cross, From Epic to Canon: History and Literature in Ancient Israel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998), p. 88.

The history of the interpretation of ‘oµr tah\asï is nicely summarized in Stephanie Dalley, “Hebrew Tah\asï, Akkadian Duhsïu, Faience and Beadwork,” Journal of Semitic Studies 45:1 (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), pp. 1–19.

Charles W. Hedrick and Paul A. Mirecki, Gospel of the Savior: A New Ancient Gospel (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 1999).

See James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library in English, 3rd ed. (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988).

Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander 5.2.7.

The annihilation of all Midianites except for virgin women occurs in Numbers 31; the killing of all Amalekites is ordered in 1 Samuel 15.

See Cross, “Priestly Tabernacle,” pp. 220, 224.

On the consistency of the orientation of other tents, see Roger L. Cribb, “Mobile Villagers: The Structure and Organization of Nomadic Pastoral Campsites in the Near East,” in Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to Mobile Campsites, ed. C.S. Gamble and W.A. Boismier (Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory, 1991), pp. 380–386.