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See Bernard F. Batto, “Red Sea or Reed Sea?” BAR 10:04.

Midrash Rabbah to Genesis (Vayera LV. 7) (Soncino Press, 1977), pp. 486–87.

“On a Rock-Crystal Lens and Decomposed Glass Found in Nineveh,” abstract in The American Journal of Science and Arts, May 1853, pp. 122–123.

“Carthaginian Lenses,” abstract in Nature, Sept. 13, 1930, p. 415.