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See Mitchell, “Music of the Old Testament,” p. 135.

See Martha Maas and Jane M. Snyder, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1989), p. 74, fig. 7; pp. 102–111, figs. 5, 6, 11, 17, 26; p. 134, fig. 11.

See, e.g., John Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting: 11th-6th Centuries B.C.—A Handbook (London: Thames and Hudson, 1998), figs. 99, 105, 131, 145.

See Terence C. Mitchell, “The Music of the Old Testament Reconsidered,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 124 (1992), p. 137.

Mary Remnant, Musical Instruments of the West (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978), p. 138 and figs. 119.5–9.

Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1997).

H.H. Rowley, The Relevance of Apocalyptic (London: Lutterworth Press, 1944), p. 173.

“Israel’s Y2K Problem,” The New York Times Magazine (October 3, 1999).

See the extraordinary article by Lawrence Wright, “Forcing the End,” The New Yorker (July 20, 1998), pp. 42–53. Wright focuses on the breeding of a ritually appropriate red heifer, the ashes of which are required for Temple rites, according to Numbers 19.

Paul Boyer, in When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992), chronicles the spectacular rise and popularity of this approach to Bible prophecy.