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This fact is not sufficiently addressed by some attempts to distinguish the two Aramaic words in terms of their usage in this inscription and in the subsequent implications for Genesis 1:26.

J.FA. Sawyer, “The Meaning of µyhlaÔ µl,x<B] (‘In the Image of God’) in Genesis I–XI,” Journal of Theological Studies 25 (1974), pp. 418–426, esp. pp. 420-42l

James Barr, “The Image of God in the Book of Genesis— A Study of Terminology,” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 51 (1968–1969), pp. 11–26, esp. pp. 24–25.

David T. Tsumura, The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Investigation JSOT Supplement 83 (Sheffield, UK: Academic Press, 1989), pp. 123–137.

Jonas C. Greenfield, “A Touch of Eden,” in Orientalia J. Duchesne-Guillemin Emerito Oblata, ed. P. Lexoq, Acta Iranica 23, Hommages et Opera Minora 9 (Leiden: Bril1, 1984), pp. 219–224; Millard, “The Etymology of Eden,” pp.103–106.

This was observed in the major publication, Assaf et al., La statue de Tell Fekherye, p. 30, n. 1

The text is line 18 of RS 25.421 in Ugaritica V (text number 169), pp. 313, 315. For other appearances of the D stem of tadahÉaCdu, see W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwöprterbuch, Band III, pp. 1378–1379. Von Soden gives the meaning, “überreichlich machen.”

The translation is that of Millard and Bordreuil, who published the original text in “A Statue from Syria with Assyrian and Aramaic Inscriptions,” Biblical Archaeologist 45 (1982), p. 37.

He also identifies himself as the ruler of Sikan, probably Tell Fakhariyah.