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14. Janzen, Genesis 12–50, 87.
15. Ibid., 91.
16. On primogeniture, see Janzen, Genesis 12–50, 94–98.
17. On hair as uncouth, see ibid., 96–97.
18. Janzen, Genesis 12–50.
19. On the latter suggestion, see ibid., 150–51.
20. Comment inspired by ibid., 151.
21. J. Gerald Janzen, Exodus (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997), 22.
22. J. Gerald Janzen, “And the Bush Was Not Consumed,” Encounter 63 (2003): 119–27.
23. Catherine M. LaCugna, God for Us: The Trinity and the Christian Life (New York: Harper-
Collins, 1991), 302.
24. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (New York: Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1951), 3.
25. We are indebted for the analysis in this paragraph to J. Gerald Janzen, Exodus, 108–9.
26. Sarna, Genesis, 348.
27. Janzen, Genesis 12–50, 199–200.
28. Ibid., 175; on vengeance, see 204.
29. Terence E. Fretheim, Exodus, Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and
Preaching (Louisville, KY: John Knox Press, 1991), 182.
30. Janzen, Exodus, 142.
31. For a complete discussion arguing that “you shall not kill’ is the appropriate translation,
see Wilma Bailey, You Shall Not Kill or You Shall Not Murder? The Assault on a Biblical Text
(Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005).
32. Fretheim, Exodus, 235.
33. See Anson Laytner, Arguing with God: A Jewish Tradition (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson,
1990), on argument in Jewish prayer.
34. We discuss this matter in Proper 24/Year A of Preaching the Gospels without Blaming the
Jews (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004), 78–79.
35. For a survey of interpretive possibilities, see Jacob Milgrom, Numbers, JPS Torah Commentary
(Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1990), 448–56.
36. Jeffrey H. Tigay, Deuteronomy, JPS Torah Commentary (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1996), 40–42, 339.
37. Joseph R. Jeter Jr., Preaching Judges, Preaching Classic Texts (St. Louis, MO: Chalice
Press, 2003), 53.
38. Tigay, Deuteronomy, 95.
39. John B. Cobb Jr. coined the expression “the call forward” in his God and the World
(Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1969), 45.
40. For the case that Jesus did no such thing, see E. P. Sanders, “Jews, Ancient Judaism, and
Modern Christianity,” in Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism, eds. Paula Fredriksen
and Adele Reinhartz (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), 31–55.
41. Tigay, Deuteronomy, 69.
42. Sarna, Genesis, 125.
43. Janzen, Genesis 12–50, 50.
44. Karen Randolph Joines, Serpent Symbolism in the Old Testament: A Linguistic, Archaeological,
and Literary Study (Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974), vi.
45. Ibid.