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See generally Baruch Halpern, David’s Secret Demons (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).

See J.H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, vol. 4 (Urbana and Chicago, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2001), section 408.

Frank M. Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA, 1980); J.C. De Moor, “The Rise of Jahwism. The Roots of Israelite Monotheism II” Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium (Louvain, 1990); D.A. Robertson, Linguistic Evidence in Dating Early Hebrew Poetry (Missoula, MT, 1972).

On the emergence of written culture with the state, see for example, T.N.D. Mettinger, “Solomonic State Officials. A Study of the Civil Government Officials in the Israelite Monarchy,” Coniectanea Biblica, OTS, vol. V (Lund, 1971); Volkmar Fritz, “Die Entstehung Israels im 12. und 11. Jh. V. Chr.,” Biblical Encyclopaedia vol. 2 (Stuttgart, 1996), pp. 202f.

D.P. Henige, The Chronology of Oral Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 121–144.

H. Engel, “Die Siegesstele des Merneptah,” Biblica 60 (1979), pp. 373–394; M.C. Astour, “Yahweh in Egyptian Topographical Lists,” in Elmar Edel Festschrift (Bamberg 1979), pp. 17–34.