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^dEN-LÍL (Sumerian) is written syllabically as i-li-lu; see Giovanni Pettinato et al., MEE 4.4–6, v. X:10–11 and texts 9–11, v. II:21–22 (Naples: Instituto Universitario Orientale, 1982).

Gordon, “Eblaitica,” pp. 27–28.

Cyrus Gordon discusses this translation in “His Name is One,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies (July 1970), pp. 198–199.

See Zelig S. Harris, A Grammar of the Phoenician Language (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1936), p. 98; and Frank L. Benz, Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1972), p. 202, where he identifies the intervening aleph (’) as a prothetic-aleph, a pronunciation aid.

This short inscription is from a grave stela in Tharros, Sardinia; it reads: “The grave of Baalazbul, the wife of Ezerbaal, [who was] the son of Maqom” (Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum 1.158 [Paris: Klincksieck, 1881]).

The shift from aa, Baal, to ee, Beel, reflects the Aramaic pronunciation (b^e ‘eµl).

The Ugaritic Textbook: 32[2].1.30; 5[67].6.10; 6[49].3.3; 6[49].3.9; 6.1.42[49.1.14]; 6[49].3.21; 6[49].3.1; 6[49].4.40; 3[’NT]1.3; 6[49].4.29; 9[33].2.10; 2.1[137].43; 2.4[68].8; and 2.1[137].38 (Analecta Orientalia 38 [Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1965]).

See Vincent Taylor, The Gospel According to St. Mark (London: Macmillan, 1966), pp. 238–239; and William J. Hickie, “Beelzeboúl” in Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977), p. 32.