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See Halpern, First Historians, pp. 40–43; and K. Lawson Younger, Judges and Ruth (NIVAC; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), pp. 113–114.

See Baruch Halpern, The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1996), p. 41, who notes that the Maori of New Zealand did this. Also note discussion in Daniel Block, Judges, Ruth (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999), pp. 160–161.

I.C. McManus, M.P. Bryden, “The Genetics of Handedness, Cerebral Dominance, and Lateralization,” in I. Rapin, S.J. Segalowitz, eds., Handbook of Neuropsychology (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992), pp. 115–144.

P.G. Hepper, G.R. McCartney, E.A. Shannon, “Lateralised Behaviour in First Trimester Human Foetuses,” Neuropsychologia 36 (1998), pp. 531–534.

E. Vuoksimaa, M. Koskenvuo, R.J. Rose, J. Kaprio, “Origins of Handedness: A Nationwide Study of 30,161 Adults,” Neuropsychologia 47 (2009), pp. 1294–1301. Published online January 16, 2009.

S.E. Medland, D.L. Duffy, M.J. Wright, G.M. Geffen, D.A. Hay, F. Levy, C.E. van-Beijsterveldt, G. Willemsen, G.C. Townsend, V. White, A.W. Hewitt, D.A. Mackey, J.M. Bailey, W.S. Slutske, D.R. Nyholt, S.A. Treloar, N.G. Martin, D.I. Boomsma, “Genetic Influences on Handedness: Data from 25,732 Australian and Dutch Twin Families,” Neuropsychologia 47 (2009), pp. 330–337. Published online September 9, 2008.

Genetic information and analysis courtesy of Joanna Klein, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics and biology at Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN.

For further discussion on the texts referenced here, as well as additional information on the organization, weaponry and tactics used by various ancient Near Eastern nations in warfare at the time of the Old Testament, see Boyd Seevers, Old Testament Warfare (Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, forthcoming).