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See James P. Harland, “Sodom and Gomorrah: The Location and Destruction of the Cities of the Plain,” Biblical Archaeologist (BA) 5 (1942), pp. 17–32, and BA 6 (1943), pp. 41–54.

Ephraim A. Speiser’s interpretation of the sistership documents of Nuzi and their relationship to Genesis is defended in his commentary, Genesis, The Anchor Bible Series (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), pp. 91–92. This view is now rejected by most scholars. See Cecil J. Mullo Weir, “The Alleged Hurrian Wife-Sister Motif in Genesis,” Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society 22 (1967), pp. 14–25.

Peter Ellis, The Yahwist, the Bible’s First Theologian (Notre Dame: Fides, 1968), p. 136.

Elizabeth A. Johnson, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse (New York: Crossroad, 1994), p. 98; see also my “Moving Beyond Masculine Metaphors,” BR 10:05.

Ontology is the philosophical study of “being.”

Joseph Jenson, Isaiah 1–39, Old Testament Message 8 (Wilmington, DE.: Michael Glazier, 1984).

See Frank M. Cross, Jr., “The Divine Warrior,” in Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 91–111.

JPSV goes its own way here: “He has been named ‘The Mighty God is planning grace; the Eternal Father, a peaceable ruler.’”

See E.F. Campbell, Ruth: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, Anchor Bible Series (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), p. 166.

See Susan Ackerman, “The Queen Mother and the Cult of Ancient Israel,” in the Journal of Biblical Literature (Fall 1993), pp. 385ff.