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The Tabnit inscription, line 8; the Eshmunazor inscription, lines 4–8, 10 and 21; the Deir ‘Alla inscription, Combination II, line 11.

W.H. Irwin, “ ‘The Smooth Stones of the Wady’? Isaiah 57:6, ” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 29 (4967), pp. 31–40.

See M. Dietrich, O. Loretz and J. Sanmartin Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit: Einschliesslich der keilalphabetischen Texte ausserhalb Ugarits I (Neukirchen-Vluyn:Neukirchener Verlag, 1976), vol 1, text 111, line 3; A. Herder, Corpus des tablettes en cunéiformes alphabétiques découvertes à Ras Shamra-Ugarit de 1929 à 1939 (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale; Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1963), text 6, col. 6, lines 44–77.

Pope has argued that yad also has this meaning in Song of Songs 5:4. Pope, Song of Songs, Anchor Bible 7c (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977), pp. 517–518.

The words are those of Marvin H. Pope, “Fertility Cults,” Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 2 (Nashville: Abingdon, 1962).

On the interpretation of Isaiah 6:13, see Samuel Iwry, “Massebah and Bamah in IQ Isaiah-a 6:13, ” Journal of Biblical Literature 76 (1957), pp. 225–232; also William F. Albright, “The High Place in Ancient Palestine,” Vetus Testamentum Supplement 4 (1956), pp. 254–255.

C. C. Torrey; The Apocryphal Literature: A Brief Introduction (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1945), p. 89.

For details, see my Judith, pp. 78–85.

Montley, p. 39.

Patricia Montley, “Judith in the Fine Arts: The Appeal of the Archetypal Androgyne,” Anima 4 (Chambersburg, PA: 1978), p. 39.