Endnote 2 – Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment?

For the problem of the date of the Decalogue, see Henry H. Rowley, “Moses and the Decalogue,” in Men of God. Studies in Old Testament History and Prophecy (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1963), pps. 1–36; Moshe Greenberg, “The Decalogue Tradition Critically Examined,” in Ben-Zion Segal, ed., The Ten Commandments as Reflected in Tradition and Literature Throughout the Ages (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1985), pps. 67–94, esp. 87–88; and in the same work, Moshe Weinfeld, “The Uniqueness of the Decalogue and Its Place in Jewish Tradition,” pps. 1–34, esp. pp. 2–3.