Endnotes

1.

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983), pp. xi–xii.

2.

Wisdom of Ben Sira 50:26.

3.

1 Enoch 89:72; commentary on pp. 1417, 1426.

4.

2 Maccabees 6:2; commentary on p. 2852.

5.

4 Baruch 1:1; commentary on p. 2664.

6.

Bezalel Porten, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-cultural Continuity and Change, 2nd ed. (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011); see B19 (p. 141), B21 (p. 150), B22 (p. 152).

7.

Josephus, The Jewish War 1 and 7 and Antiquities of the Jews 12, 13, 20.

8.

Yohanan Aharoni, Investigations at Lachish: The Sanctuary and the Residency (Tel Aviv: Gateway Publishers, 1975).

9.

Yohanan Aharoni, Beer-Sheba I: Excavations at Tel Beer-Sheba, 1969–1971 (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology, c. 1973).

10.

Josephus, War 7.

11.

Nancy L. Lapp, The Excavations at Araq el-Emir (Ann Arbor, MI: American Schools of Oriental Research; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1983).