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M. C. Astour, “Tell Mardikh and Ebla”, Ugarit-Forschungen, Vol. 3, p. 12 (1971).

G. Pettinato, “Inscription de Ibbit-Lim Roi de Ebla”, Annales Archeologiquès Arabes Syriennes, Vol. 20, p. 75 (1970).

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews XV.ii.1; VS.x.4; XVII.ii.4. The film, “Jesus of Nazareth,” erroneously followed Ramsay’s weak argument in an at tempt to harmonize the Gospels, because it showed the Romans taking a census in Herod the Great’s reign.

W. M. Ramsay, Was Christ Born in Bethlehem? (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905).

For a more detailed examination of this problem see “Dates, Discrepancies, and Dead Sea Scrolls,” The New Christian Advocate, July 1958, pp. 50–54.

G. von Rad, 1. c. 26, n. 43.

G. von Rad, Der Heilige Krieg im Alten Israel (Zurich, 1951), 25–26, n. 43.

M. Noth. Das System …, 100–06, 168–170; the quotation from p. 170, The History …, 105.

Noth himself is conscious of this, The History …, 103.