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M. Noth, The History …, 94.

M. Noth, Das System …, 94–97, 116; The History …, 92–96.

Cf. L. Ginzberg, The Legend of the Jews, VII, Index (Philadelphia, 1938), s.v. Twelve.

Annie Jaubert, “Le Symbolique des Douze”, in Hommages a André Dupont-Sommer, 454–460.

Eschine, Amb. 115.

Some examples are given by S. Hermann, ThLZ 87 (1962), col. 565, G. Fohrer, BZAW 115 (1969), 87–88. In general, J. Bright, A History of Israel (Philadelphia, 1959), 142–51; J. A. Soggin, When the Judges Ruled (London, 1965), spec. 20–22, 33–34, 70–73.

M. Noth, Das System der zwolf Stamme Israels (Stuttgart, 1930); The History of Israel (London, 1960) 2nd ed., 85–109. It should be noted that Noth himself states that his thesis cannot be mathematically demonstrated, but it can be accepted if it clarifies the history of Israel and of its institutions, Das Systems … 59–60. He expresses himself more prudently in The History …, 46.

M. Weber, Ancient Judaism, translated and edited by Hans H. Gerth and Don Martindale. (Glencoe, Ill., Free Press, 1952), 81ff and 90.

See now, especially the Heshbon studies of J. Sauer, Heshbon Pottery 1971 (Berrien Springs, Michigan: Andrews University Press, 1973).