Endnote 10 – “You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother’s Milk”

Edward Ullendorff, “Ugaritic Studies Within Their Semitic and Eastern Mediterranean Setting,” Bulletin John Rylands Library 46:236–49 (1963), p. 240. See also Theodor H. Gaster, Thespis (1961), p. 423 (“Maimonides’ … shrewd conjecture … is now confirmed by our text”); Samuel Henry Hooke, Middle Eastern Mythology (1963), p. 93 (in the Ugaritic text, “preparatory rituals are described, among which is the cooking or a kid milk, a ritual which was forbidden in the early Hebrew sacrificial regulations”).