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Susan Ackerman, “Hannah’s Tears,” in Susan Ackerman, Charles E. Carter and Beth Alpert Nakhai, eds., Celebrate Her for the Fruit of Her Hands: Studies in Honor of Carol L. Meyers (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015), pp. 13–26.

Birger A. Pearson, The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmut Koester (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991); James D. Smith III and Philip Sellew, eds., The Fabric of Early Christianity: Reflections in Honor of Helmut Koester by Fifty Years of Harvard Students (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2007).

Avi Solomon, “The Botany of Bible Lands: An Interview with Prof. Avinoam Danin,” Boing Boing, January 2, 2012, boingboing.net/2012/01/02/the-botany-of-bible-lands-an.html.

For help with understanding how to read the Bible in light of its original contexts, see Ben Witherington III, Reading and Understanding the Bible (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2014).

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The verb yada (knew) that generated in English the expression “carnal knowledge” occurs in the Hebrew Bible, referring to sexual intercourse followed by pregnancy (Genesis 4:1, 17, 25; 1 Samuel 1:19) or negatively to describe virginity (Genesis 24:16; Judges 11:39; 21:12

A voluminous scholarly literature about the trickster figure is available; a selection that can serve as a starting point for further reading follows: Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes the World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (New York: Farrar Strauss, 1998); William J. Hynes and William G. Doty, eds., Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts, and Criticism (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993); Robert D.

Vincent Lloyd-Russell, “The Serpent as the Prime Symbol of Immortality, Has Its Origin in the Semitic-Sumerian Culture,” Ph.D. dissertation (Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 1938).

Karen Randolph Joines, Serpent Symbolism in the Old Testament (Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974), pp. 16–41; Haya Bar-Izhak, “Men and Women Narrating the Myth of the Creation of Woman—Hegemonic and Subversive Message,” in Hagar Salamon and Avigdor Shinan, eds., Textures: Culture, Literature, Folklore for Galit Hasan-Rokem, vol. 2, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore 28, Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 25 (Jerusalem: The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, 2013), pp. 679–691 [Hebrew].

For a selection of Lilith scholarship, see Nitza Abrabanel, Eve and Lilith (Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan Univ. Press, 1994) [Hebrew]; Joseph Dan, “Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah,” AJS Review 5 (1980), pp. 17–40; R.P. Dow, “The Vengeful Brood of Lilith and Samael,” Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 12 (1917), pp. 2–9; G.R. Driver, “Lilith,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 91 (1959), pp.