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See Barry L. Eichler, Indenture at Nuzi (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 16–18; and Mendelsohn, Slavery in the Ancient Near East, p. 118.

For the Laws of Hammurabi, sections 116, 214 and 252. For Mari, see G. Boyer, Archives Royales de Mari VIII (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1958), p. 23; and M. Van De Mieroop, Archiv für Orientforschung 34 (1987), 10, 11.

For a summary, see Isaac Mendelsohn, Slavery in the Ancient Near East (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1949), p. 117. For detailed commentaries, see A. Falkenstein Die neusumerische Gerichtsurkunden 1 (Munich: Beck, 1956), pp. 88–90; and D.O. Edzard, Sumerische Rechtsurkunden des III. Jahrtausends (Munich: Beck, 1968), p. 87.

See Thomas L. Thompson, The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1974); John Van Seters, Abraham in History and Tradition (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1975); and Donald B. Redford, A Study of the Biblical Story of Joseph (Leiden: Brill, 1970).

See John Bright, A History of Israel (London: SCM Press, 1972), pp. 76 ff.

Julius Wellhausen, Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels, 6th edition (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1927), p. 316; reprinted as Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel (New York: Meridian Books, 1957).

See Winfried Thiel, “Jehu” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary vol. 3, pp. 670–673; Miller and Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, p. 255; and John Bright, A History of Israel (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1981), p. 247.

See Jerome T. Walsh, “Nimshi” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 4, p. 1118. John Gray notes that while Nimshi may be the name of Jehu’s clan, it is attested as the name of an individual in fiscal dockets from Samaria at the time of Jeroboam II (I and II Kings: A Commentary [Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1963], p. 486).