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Endnotes

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See Geoffrey V. T. Matthews, Bird Navigation (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1968); Stephen T. Emlen, “Migration: Orientation and Navigation,” in Avian Biology, Vol. 5, ed D. S. Farner and J. R. King (New York: Academic Press, 1975), pp. 129–219; Joel C. Welty, The Life of Birds, 3rd ed (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1985), pp. 487–497.

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See Plato, Republic, 327–369, 442–448; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Bk. V; Cicero, De Officiis, I, 20–60, De Re Publica, III, 32–48.

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See Walter Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament, Vol. I (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1961), pp. 239–258; Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament Theology, Vol. I (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), pp. 370–383, 417.

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The prophets insisted on the doing of justice, as stated by Micah in his famous summary: “You know what the Lord requires of you: to do justice, to love fidelity to the covenant, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). Also expressed by Jeremiah when he was asked to be, as it were, the Hebrew ancestor of Diogenes: “Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem. Look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice” (Jeremiah 5:1).

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Amos 8:14 is the only reference to local Canaanite divinities, but it does not refer to Bethel’s golden calf.