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Lloyd Gaston, Paul and the Torah (Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 1987), p. 15.

Adolf von Harnack, What Is Christianity? (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1901), p. 190.

Robert Hammerton-Kelly, Sacred Violence: Paul’s Hermeneutic of the Cross (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992), pp. 11–12.

J.C. O’Neill, The Recovery of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (London: SPCK, 1972), p. 47.

Heikki Räisänen, Paul and the Law (Tübingen: Mohr, 1987), p. 264.

For additional summarizing comments concerning Isaiah’s taunt song against the king of Babylon, see Ronald F. Youngblood, The Book of Isaiah: An Introductory Commentary 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993), pp. 61–63.

Robert L. Alden, “Lucifer, Who or What?” Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 11 (1968), p. 38.

Brevard S. Childs, Myth and Reality in the Old Testament, Studies in Biblical Theology 27 (London: SCM, 1960), p. 69.

O’Connell, “Isaiah xiv 4b–23, ” p. 417.

Many scholars readily admit this. See, for example, John N. Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 1–39 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986), p. 322; Wildberger, Isaiah 13–27, pp. 63, 65; W.S. Prinsloo, “Isaiah 14:12–15—Humiliation, Hubris, Humiliation,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 93 (1981), p. 438 n. 35.