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Babylonian Chronicle (of Nebuchadnezzar in His Fourth Year), in D.J. Wiseman, Chronicles of Chaldean Kings (London: British Museum, 1956), pp. 70–71, lines 5–7. On the campaign in his previous year (602 B.C.E.), see W. Tyborowski in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 86 (1996), pp. 211–216.

Mordechai Cogan and Hayim Tadmor, II Kings, Anchor Bible 11, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1988), p. 308.

On the attitude of the “true” prophets and the prophetic books, see C.R. Seitz, “Theology in Conflict: Reactions to the Exile in the Book of Jeremiah,” Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) 176 (1989); C. Hardmeier, “Prophetie im Streit vor dem Untergang Judas,” BZAW 187 (1990).

The place-name of the sender has recently been detected on the reverse of the papyrus. Written in Demotic script, it may be read as Ekron; see Bezalel Porten, “The Identity of King Adon,” Biblical Archaeologist 44 (1981), pp. 36–52.

F.R. Blake, A Resurvey of Hebrew Tenses (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1951), p. 16f.

See M.A. Kaplan, Chap. 27, esp. p. 296ff., and R.N. Rosencrance, Chap. 30, p. 325ff., in J. N. Rosenau, International Politics and Foreign Policy, 2nd ed. (New York: Free Press, 1969).

See A. Spalinger, “Egypt and Babylonia: A Survey c. 620 B.C.–550 B.C.,” Studien zur Altägyptische Kultur 5 (1977), pp. 221–255.

Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1973).

HarperCollins Bible Dictionary, ed. Paul J. Achtemeier, rev. ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 208 (the entry is by Jeremiah Unterman), emphasis supplied.

Frauke Gröndahl, Die Personennamen der Texte aus Ugarit (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1967), pp. 43 (not interpreted as Israel), 394 (the name of an elite Maryannu warrior).