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Philo, Migration of Abraham 89–93; see similar lists in Pirkei Avot 3.16 and Talmud, Yoma 85b.

Philo, Questions on Exodus 2.2.

Talmud, Yevamot 46a.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 20.38–40.

Philo, Special Laws 2–11.

Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 9.27.4, 10; J.J. Collins, “Artapanus,” The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, ed. by J.H. Charlesworth (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985), vol. 2, pp. 896–899.

Jubilees 15:25–34. Similar ideas underlie the metaphorical use of circumcision at Qumran (CD 16.4–6; 1QS 5.5) and perhaps a traditional Jewish blessing used at circumcision (Shabbat 137b and parallels). So David Flusser and Shmuel Safrai, “Who Sanctified the Beloved in the Womb?” Immanuel 11 (1980), pp. 46–55.

Claudius, “Letter to Alexandria,” in Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, ed. Tcherikover and A. Fuks (1957–1964), p. 153.

See Maccabees 2:30–31, 3:21, 7:10–15. See also Victor A. Tcherikover, Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1959), pp. 311, 313.

Suetonius, Domitian 12.2, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars.