Endnote 14 – Is Psalm 45 an Erotic Poem?

Robert D. Biggs, ŠÀ.ZI.GA: Ancient Mesopotamian Potency Incantations, Texts from Cuneiform Sources 2, (Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin, 1967), pp. 17, 19, 20, 21, 35, 37, 53. The bow is also a masculine symbol in a Hittite potency-restoring ceremony; see James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), p. 349.