Footnotes

1.

See Mary Joan Winn Leith, “Of Philistines and Phalluses,BAR 34:06.

2.

For differing sources of Deuteronomy 32:8, see “The Most Original Bible Text: How to Get There: Deuteronomy 32:8, Bible Review 16:04. While the Masoretic text reads, “according to the sons of Israel,” the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint record, “according to the sons of God.”

3.

See André Lemaire, The Birth of Monotheism: The Rise and Disappearance of Yahwism (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2007).

Endnotes

1.

The idea that the Bible as the word of God contains no errors or contradictions.

2.

Paradise Lost 4:736–752. For more about this, see Gary Anderson, The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001), pp. 63–73.

3.

Midrash means (in Hebrew) “searching out” and refers to Rabbinic interpretations of the Biblical text, often taking the form of stories that fill in the missing pieces of a Biblical narrative.

4.

For the record, Islam follows the same line of thought as Jewish and Christian ones.

5.

Gerald Moers, “The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt,” in Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert, eds., Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (Chichester, UK: Blackwell, 2010), pp. 169–181.