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Shoshanah, Derekh Binah, p. 176.

Pseudo-Philo, Biblical Antiquities 40:1–8, in Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, ed. James H. Charlesworth (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985), vol. 2, p. 353.

Flavius Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews 5.7.10, transl. William Whiston (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1978), p. 118.

Abraham Shoshanah, Derekh Binah (Cleveland: Ofeq Inst. 1988), p. 173 (in Hebrew).

Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984), pp. 1, 93.

Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from Tanakh, A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society [JPS], 1985).

Goshen-Gottstein, “The Textual Criticism of the Old Testament Rise, Decline, Rebirth,” Journal of Biblical Literature 102:3 (Sept 1983), p. 396.

See Marcus, The Middle East, chap. 2, “The People: a Groups, Classes, and Social Contrasts,” and chap.9, “The Urban Experience: Neighborhood Life and Personal Identity”; and Adler, “Aleppo,” p. 168.

Marcus, The Middle East, pp. 27–36.