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Footnotes
Midrash (plural midrashim) is rabbinic lore of either a legal or nonlegal nature attached to a biblical verse.
Michael B. Dick, “Worshiping Idols: What Isaiah Didn’t Know,” BR, April 2002.
Endnotes
For synopsis and sources, see Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1911), vol. 3, p. 122; vol. 6, p. 51 n. 266.
Thorkild Jacobsen, “The Graven Image,” in Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross, ed. Patrick Miller et al. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987), pp. 15–32.
Angelika Berlejung, “Washing the Mouth: The Consecration of Divine Images in Mesopotamia,” in The Image and the Book: Iconic Cults, Aniconicism and the Rise of Book Religion in Israel and the Ancient Near East, ed. Karel van der Toorn (Leuven: Peeters, 1997), pp. 45–72.