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Dahood, “Afterword: Ebla, Ugarit, and the Bible,” in English edition of Pettinato, The Archives of Ebla.

Pettinato, The Archives of Ebla.

Paolo Matthiae, Ebla: An Empire Rediscovered (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1977); rev. ed., Ebla: Un impero ritrovato (Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1989). His most recent account in English is “Masterpieces of Early and Old Syrian Art: Discoveries of the 1988 Ebla Excavations in a Historical Perspective,” 1989 Mortimer Wheeler Archaeological Lecture, in Proceedings of the British Academy 75, pp. 25–56.

Mitchell Dahood, “Afterword: Ebla, Ugarit, and the Bible,” in Pettinato, The Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981), pp. 271–321. Originally published as Ebla: Un impero inciso nell’argilla (Milan: Arnaldo Mondadori, 1979).

Pettinato, “Gli archivi reali di Tell Mardikh-Ebla. Riflessioni e prospettive,” Rivista Biblical Italian 25 I (1977), pp. 225–243, esp. p. 235; see also “BAR Interviews Giovanni Pettinato,” BAR 06:05.

Pettinato, “Testi cuneiformi del 3. millennio in paleocananeo rinvenuti nella campagna di scavi 1974 a Tell Mardikh-Ebla,” Orientalia 44 (1975), pp. 361–374; transl. as “Old Canaanite Cuneiform Texts of the Third Millennium,” in Sources and Monographs on the Ancient Near East 1/7 (Malibu, CA: Undena, 1979).

Giovanni Pettinato, “Ebla and the Bible,” Biblical Archaeologist (BA) 43 (1960), p. 208, Originally published as “Ebla e la Bibbia,” Oriens Antiquus 19 (1980), pp. 49–72.

For further discussion, see my “A Note on the Structure of Hebrews 12, 1–2, ” Biblica 68 (1987), pp. 543–551.

Cf. Cadbury, “Ancient Physiological Notions,” p. 439.

For another example in the field of embryology, see Pieter Willem van der Horst, “Seven Months’ Children in Jewish and Christian Literature from Antiquity,” Ephemerides Theological Lovanienses 54 (1978), pp. 346–360; now reprinted in his Essays on the Jewish World of Early Christianity Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 14 (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag, 1990), pp. 233–247.