William J. Fulco, The Canaanite God Resûep (New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1976), pp. 49–54; Walter Burkert, Greek Religion, transl. John Raffan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1985) pp. 145–147. See also his Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, transl. Peter Bing (Berkeley, CA Univ. of California Press, 1983), p. 39, note 19. For survival of older cults in Hellenistic-Roman Palestine, including that of Resheph-Mukol, see David Flusser, “Paganism in Palestine” in The Jewish People in the First Century, ed. S. Safrai and M. Stern (Philadelphia Fortress, 1976), vol. 2, p. 1070.
