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Endnote 7 - Part I: Israelite Origins

For the linguistic evidence, see Cross, “Reuben, Firstborn of Jacob,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 100 (1988), Supplement: Lebenndige Forschung im Alten Testament, p. 63, n. 54.

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Endnote 6 - Part I: Israelite Origins

See Deuteronomy 2:1. The “Red Sea” here and in Numbers 14:25 (as well as in 1 Kings 9:26 and Jeremiah 49:21) is certainly a reference to the Gulf of Aqabah as generally recognized by critical scholars. See, for example, Noth, Numbers: A Commentary (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1968), p. 110.

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Endnote 5 - Part I: Israelite Origins

Martin Noth, “Die Wallfahrsweg zum Sinai,” PalästinaJahrbuch 36 (1940), pp. 5–28; cf. Frank M. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 308–317.

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Endnote 4 - Part I: Israelite Origins

Located, I have argued near the waterfall, in the present-day valley of ‘Uyun Musa (“the springs of Moses”), the biblical “valley over against Beth Peor.”