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See Kjeld Nielsen, “Ancient Aromas,” BR, 07:03. See also Gus W. van Beek, “Frankincense and Myrrh,” Biblical Archaeologist 33 (1960), pp. 70–95; M. Elath, Economic Relations in the Lands of the Bible (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1977), pp. 99–102 (in Hebrew); K. Nielsen, “Incense in Ancient Israel,” Supplements to Vetus Testamentum Pseudepigrapha 38, (Leiden: 1986), pp. 16–18.

Pliny, Natural History 2.63–65.

As regards some of these exceptions, it is not certain they were altars.

See Katherine Doob Sakenfeld, Faithfulness in Action (Westminster Press, 1985), pp. 102ff.

Leviticus 1:12–13.

Leviticus 1:11, 3:2.

Leviticus 1:11; Mishnah Zebahim 2:1; Mishnah Pesahim 5:5

Leviticus 1:4 and 3:2; Mishnah Pesahim 5:2 Mishnah Menahot 8:8.

See Jerusalem Talmud, Berakhat 8:12a, 52ff. and the sources discussed in Otfried Hofius, “The Lord’s Supper and the Lord’s Supper Tradition,” One Loaf, One Cup: Ecumenical Studies of 1 Cor 11 and Other Eucharistic Texts, ed. Ben Meyer (Macon, GA Mercer Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 75–115.