Biblical Archaeology Review

Eusebius, Vita Constantini 11.

Maimonides, Mishneh Torah 8: Avodah.

Tosefta, Baba Bathra 1.11–12. The Tosefta may have been compiled early in the Amoraic period, c. 230–500 C.E.

S.D. Goitein, “The Song of Songs: A Female Composition,” in Athalya Brenner, ed., A Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), pp. 58–66.

Aren M. Wilson-Wright, “Love Conquers All: Song of Songs 8:6b–7a as a Reflex of the Northwest Semitic Combat Myth,” Journal of Biblical Literature 134 (2015), pp. 333–345.

The New Jewish Publication Society translation also reads “fierce.”

Israel Finkelstein, “The Finds from the Rock-Cut Pool in Jerusalem and the Date of the Siloam Tunnel: An Alternative Interpretation,” Semitica et Classica 6 (2013), pp. 279–284.

Jacob Neusner, Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament: What We Cannot Show, We Do Not Know (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1994), p. 163.

In the series Studies of Judaism in Late Antiquity III, IV (Leiden: Brill, 1973).

For discussion, see William Scott Green, “Jacob Neusner’s Legacy of Learning,” in Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce Chilton, William Scott Green and Gary G. Porton, eds., A Legacy of Learning: Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner, Brill Reference Library of Judaism 43 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 3–9; Aaron Hughes, Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast (New York: New York Univ. Press, 2016).