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Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg, The Book of J (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990), pp. 305–306.

See the apt criticisms of Rieff, Ricoeur and Preus (cited above, n. 32).

Freud, The Future of an Illusion (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), p. 34.

Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1965), p. 163.

See, for example, the critical discussions in Philip Rieff, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 281–328; Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1970), pp. 230–259, 531–551; and James S. Preus, Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1987), pp. 178–204.

A notable exception is Walter Brueggemann, Genesis, Interpretation (Atlanta: John Knox, 1982), pp. 56–57.

Genesis 4:15–16.

Westermann, Genesis 1–11, p. 296.

Gerhard von Rad, Genesis: A Commentary, Old Testament Library (Philadelphia: Westminster, rev. ed., 1972) p. 104; see similar comments by Zimmerli, 1 Mose 1–11, p. 212.

See Genesis 18:17–33 and Exodus 32:9–14.