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Endnotes
Avrohom Davis, ed., The Metsudah Chumash/Rashi, vol. 4, BaMidbar (Book of Numbers) (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1996), p. 144.
See Joseph M. Baumgarten et al., Qumran Cave 4, XIII: The Damascus Document (4Q266-273), Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 18 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), p. 76, pl. 14.
The same phrase, “You, O my God,” appears frequently in this scroll, but with the heh. Of course the difference could be attributed to a simple scribal error, or it could, possibly, be purposeful.
George W. Coats, “Lot,” in Understanding the Word, ed. James T. Butler, Edgar W. Conrad and Ben C. Ollenburger (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985), p. 123.
The rabbis discuss how it was that Pharaoh could be forgiven but not Amalek. The discussion is relevant to the question of whether Hitler could be forgiven. On the Internet, see www.masorti.org.
Modern critical scholarship dates the Book of Jonah considerably later, not earlier than the late sixth century B.C.E.
See Chaim Seiden, “Why Does Jonah Want to Die?” BR 15:03.