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Baruch Margalit, “Why King Mesha of Moab Sacrificed His Oldest Son,” BAR 12:06. But see also Bradley Aaronson, “Whose Son Was Sacrificed?” Queries & Comments, BAR 16:03.

The Talmud (tahl-MOOD) is a collection of rabbinic writings (first-seventh centuries C.E.) constituting the basis of religious authority for traditional Judaism. It has two components: the Mishnah (a written summary of the Oral Law) and the Gemara (an explanation of, and commentary on, the Mishnah).

C.E. (Common Era), used by this author, is the alternate designation corresponding to A.D. often used in scholarly literature.

Later Jewish tradition (for example, pseudo-Philo) called her “Sheilah,” “The Dedicated One,” from the Hebrew root, SH‘L, “to ask, to dedicate, to require.”

Marc Brettler, “Old Testament Manuscripts: From Qumran to Leningrad,” BR 06:04.

For the poems referred to in this article, see the author’s Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991), reviewed in Bible Books.

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era), used by this author, is an alternate designation corresponding to B.C. often in scholarly literature

The italicized words are a doubtful text.

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) is the scholarly alternate designation corresponding to B.C.

See Richard E. Friedman, “Is Everybody a Bible Expert?” BR 07:02.