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Moawiyeh Ibrahim and van der Kooij, “Excavations at Tell Deir ‘Alla, Season 1979,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 23 (1979), p. 50.

Hoftijzer and van der Kooij, ATDA.

Henk J. Franken, “Texts from the Persian Period from Tell Deir ‘Alla,” Vetus Testamentum (VT) 17 (1967), pp. 480–481.

Extract from the archaeological notes published in Jacob Hoftijzer and Gerrit van der Kooij, Aramaic Texts from Deir ‘Alla (ATDA), (Leiden, 1976), p. 18.

“Revising Tell Abu Hawam,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 257 (1985), pp. 65, 70.

The Egyptian Sky-goddess.

This love poem, like many others, was written on papyrus. The translation, as well as that of the remaining ones in this article, appear in Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature (AEL), 2 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973–1976).

Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Imagine how much more difficult it would be to read this sentence if you were totally unfamiliar with that great speech.

Carl Sagan makes the same point. See “A Scientist Looks at Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision,” BAR 06:01.