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Footnotes

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Ecclesiasticus is part of the canon in Catholic tradition.

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The Septuagint says iron, instead of bronze.

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I presume that a broad area was cleared and then the part most amenable to writing was selected, like clearing ground to pitch a tent.

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Perhaps “split,” “crack” or “overlap”; the etymology and meaning of zdh is still disputed and remains uncertain.

Endnotes

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See the discussion in J. Van Seters, In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1983), pp. 292–302, esp. 298–299.

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Perhaps in the sense “heard and understood.”