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Walter Farber, “Associative Magic: Some Rituals, Word Plays, and Philology,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 106 (1986), pp. 447–449.

See Wilfred G. Lambert, “The Twenty-One Poultices,” Anatolian Studies 30 (1980), pp. 77–83, esp. 82.

This has been determined by chemical analysis of a bowl specifically designated as composed of alallu. Cf. William L. Moran, “A Bowl of alallu-stone,” Zeitschrift für die Assyriologie 81 (1991), pp. 268–273.

Anthony R. George, “Sennacherib and the Tablet of Destinies,” Iraq 48 (1986), pp. 133–145, esp. 144–145.

Mayer I. Gruber, Aspects of Nonverbal Communication in the Ancient Near East, Studia Pohl 12 (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1980), vol. 1, p. 107.

Arnold B. Ehrlich, Randglossen zur hebraischen Bibel: Textkritisches, Sprachliches und Sachliches (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909), ad loc.

Cf. J.E. Hartley, Leviticus, Word Bible Commentary 4 (Dallas: Word, 1992), pp. 449–450.

William F. Albright, Archaeology and the Religion of Israel: The Ayer Lectures of the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1956), pp. 166–167.

Cf. in general E.S. Hartland et al., “Stones,” in Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, ed. J. Hastings (New York: Scribner’s; Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1921), vol. 11, pp. 864–881; C.M. Edsman, “Stones,” in The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade (New York: Macmillan, 1987), vol. 14, pp. 49–55.