Footnote 1 – Picturing Imageless Deities

Memories of early contacts between Israel and the Midianites (a people that occupied southern Transjordan) and Kenites (a people of the desert near Sinai) appear in various Biblical traditions, such as the reports of Moses’ marriage to a daughter of Hobab, who is called a Midianite in Numbers 10:29 and a Kenite in Judges 4:11.