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Ugaritic Texts, 52:14; Corpus des tablettes en cunéiformes alphabétiques, 23:14.

See David T. Tsumura, “The Ugaritic Drama of the Good Gods: A Philological Study.” Ph. D. dissertation, Brandeis University.

See Hans Kosmala, “The So-Called Ritual Decalogue,” Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute 1:31–61 (1962), p. 52.

See J. C. de Moor, New Year with Canaanites and Israelites, pt. 2 (1972), p. 17; Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (1973), pp. 22–24 Cross, “’el,” in the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament I, ed., G. J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren (1974), pp. 242–261; Cyrus H. Gordon, Ugaritic Literature (1949), pp. 57–62.

Geza Vermés, Scripture and Tradition in Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 1973), p. 195.

Midrash Rabbah. Song of Songs, translaled by M Simon (London: Soncino, 1939), p. 86.

G. Schrenk, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed., G. Kittel, Vol. 2 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1974), pp 740ff.

A. Marmorstein, “The Holy Spirit in Rabbinic Legend,” Studies in Jewish Theology, ed., J. Rabinowitz and M. Lew (Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries, 1972), p. 131.

E. E. Urbach, The Sages—Their Concepts and Beliefs, translated from the Hebrew by I. Abrahams (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1975), p 43. Also see the discussion by A. Unterman, Encyclopedia Judiaca, Vol. 14, “Shekhinah” (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), pp. 1350ff.

Here I am especially indebted to the analysis of F. Lentzen-Deis, Die Taufe Jesu nach den Synoptikern (Frankfurt am Main: Knecht, 1970), pp. 97–248.