Biblical Archaeology Review

An alternative site is also being considered by the Borowskis.

Also known as the Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judentum.

The Hildesheimer Seminary was named after its founder, Azriel Hildesheimer (1820–1899), a Jewish scholar who founded the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary in 1873 to promote neo-Orthodoxy and to counter the growing influence of Reform Judaism.

See Lawrence E. Stager and Samuel R. Wolff, “Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control?” BAR 10:01.

The Aramean moon god.

The dictation copy was probably for a priest who wanted to recite the prayer in Aramaic but who did not know Aramaic, so he needed a transliteration in demotic script much as some American Jews today who do not know Hebrew need a transliteration in Latin letters to recite a Hebrew prayer. The Egyptianized Aramean priest was probably continuing a tradition of reciting prayers in Aramaic despite his ignorance of that language. Aramaic was probably dying out in Egypt at this time.

This sentence is an improved reading, made since publication of the original article.

Since their article was published, Steiner has corrected this number from seven to eight.

Charles F. Nims and Richard C. Steiner, “A Paganized Version of Psalm 20:2–6 from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 103:1 (1983), pp. 261–274.