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Footnotes

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Burke O. Long, Planting and Reaping Albright (University Park, PA: Penn State Univ. Press, 1997).

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Julius Wellhausen argued that the Pentateuch consists of four different authorial strands, a view that, in general, is still widely accepted by scholars today.—Ed.

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Ms. Anderson wrote, “My goodness, Professor Joffe must live on antacid pills. Such vitriol!”—Ed.

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Mr. Edgren wrote that Joffe “ridicule[d] the continuing search for ‘historical kernels’” in the Biblical narrative.—Ed.

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Mr. Sturges suggested that by his review Joffe may have “done [us] a favor.” Sturges ordered a copy of Ancient Israel.—Ed.

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This is an apparent reference to BAS’s annual winter Seminar at Sea in the Caribbean, which features lectures by leading scholars.—Ed.