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Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry, p. 198.

Dahood, Psalms I, Anchor Bible 16 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966), p. 54.

Mitchell Dahood, Psalms III, Anchor Bible 17A (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), p. 336. See also Skehan, “The Structure of the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy (34:1–43),” in Studies, p. 75 n. 16; and Wilfred G.E. Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry: A Guide to Its Techniques, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 26 (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984), pp. 8, 191.

M. O’Connor, “Epigraphic Semitic Scripts,” in The World’s Writing Systems (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), ed. Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, pp. 89–92. See also David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987), p. 202.

For instance, W. Stewart McCullough and William R. Taylor, “Psalms,” in The Interpreter’s Bible, 12 vols. (New York: Abingdon Press, 1955), vol. 4, headnotes to Psalms 9, 25, 34, 111 and 145.

See, for example, Murphy, Wisdom Literature, pp. 115–116.

See Skehan, “The Acrostic Poem in Sirach 51:13:30, ” Harvard Theological Review 64 (1971), pp. 387–400; Skehan and Alexander A. Di Lella, The Wisdom of Ben Sira, Anchor Bible 39 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987), pp. 574, 576–577.

The Five Gospels (New York: Macmillan, 1993), p. 36.