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Every source the pages cite, with where to read the ones that are free online.
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Holy Bible, New Living Translation, with the NIV, ESV and King James Version and their footnotes
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Cited on Day 1 · Formed from the Dust, Day 2 · East of Eden, Day 3 · A Bow in the Clouds, Day 4 · Among the Ashes, Day 5 · A Brook in the Heat, Day 6 · Hope for a Tree, The Shepherd King, 2 · The valley of Elah
BibleProject, overview of Genesis 1–11 (video)
Cited on Day 1 · Formed from the Dust
Julius Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, 1883; English translation 1885.
Cited on Day 1 · Formed from the Dust
“The Sumerian king list,” translation. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford.
Cited on Day 2 · East of Eden
Augustine, The City of God, Book 15.
Cited on Day 2 · East of Eden
The British Museum, the Flood Tablet (K.3375).
Cited on Day 3 · A Bow in the Clouds
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, translated by William Whiston. Book 1 names Uz (1.145; Whiston 1.6.4); Book 6 tells of Goliath (6.171).
Cited on Day 4 · Among the Ashes, The Shepherd King, 2 · The valley of Elah
Jeremy M. Hutton, “Why Is David and Goliath’s Story 40% Longer in the MT than in the LXX?” TheTorah.com, 2023.
Clyde E. Billington, “Goliath and the Exodus Giants: How Tall Were They?” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 50, no. 3 (2007): 489–508.
BibleProject, overview of Job (video)
Cited on Day 4 · Among the Ashes
“The Book of Job.” Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Cited on Day 4 · Among the Ashes
Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 14b–15b.
On who wrote Job, and when he lived.
Cited on Day 4 · Among the Ashes
Lancelot C. L. Brenton, translator, The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, 1844.
Job 42:17, the Greek Job’s closing note.
Cited on Day 4 · Among the Ashes, Day 5 · A Brook in the Heat
Will Kynes, “‘My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping’: The Dialogical Intertextuality of Allusions to the Psalms in Job” (thesis summary). Tyndale Bulletin 63, no. 2 (2012).
Cited on Day 5 · A Brook in the Heat
German Archaeological Institute, Taymāʾ: Multidisciplinary Series on the Results of the Saudi-German Archaeological Project. Archaeopress, 2018–.
Cited on Day 5 · A Brook in the Heat
Mishnah, Sotah 5:5.
On Job 13:15, read both ways.
Cited on Day 6 · Hope for a Tree
Andrew Lawler, “Where the Wells Never Go Dry.” Archaeology, November/December 2015.
On Tayma.
Cited on Day 5 · A Brook in the Heat
Books and journal articles
W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths. Eisenbrauns, 2013.
On the Enuma Elish.
Cited on Day 1 · Formed from the Dust
Ali Abou-Assaf, Pierre Bordreuil and Alan R. Millard, La statue de Tell Fekherye et son inscription bilingue assyro-araméenne, 1982.
Cited on Day 1 · Formed from the Dust
J. Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1. Brazos, 2005.
Cited on Day 1 · Formed from the Dust
Thorkild Jacobsen, The Sumerian King List. University of Chicago Press, 1939.
Cited on Day 2 · East of Eden
Ronald S. Hendel, The Text of Genesis 1–11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition. Oxford University Press, 1998.
On the ages in Genesis 5.
Cited on Day 2 · East of Eden
Annette Yoshiko Reed, Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Cited on Day 2 · East of Eden
Andrew George, translator, The Epic of Gilgamesh. Allen Lane, 1999; Penguin Classics, 2000.
Tablet XI.
Cited on Day 3 · A Bow in the Clouds
W. G. Lambert and A. R. Millard, Atra-Ḫasīs: The Babylonian Story of the Flood. Clarendon Press, 1969.
Cited on Day 3 · A Bow in the Clouds
George Smith, “The Chaldean Account of the Deluge.” Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 2 (1873).
Cited on Day 3 · A Bow in the Clouds
Andrew George, “The Tower of Babel: Archaeology, History and Cuneiform Texts.” Archiv für Orientforschung 51 (2005–2006).
Cited on Day 3 · A Bow in the Clouds
Dominique Barthélemy, David W. Gooding, Johan Lust and Emanuel Tov, The Story of David and Goliath: Textual and Literary Criticism. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 73, 1986.
Steven L. McKenzie, King David: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 2000.
J. Daniel Hays, “Reconsidering the Height of Goliath.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 48, no. 4 (2005): 701–14.
Aren M. Maeir, Stefan J. Wimmer, Alexander Zukerman and Aaron Demsky, “A Late Iron Age I/Early Iron Age II Old Canaanite Inscription from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath, Israel: Palaeography, Dating, and Historical-Cultural Significance.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 351 (2008): 39–71.
Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor, Khirbet Qeiyafa, vol. 1, Excavation Report 2007–2008. Israel Exploration Society, 2009.
Israel Finkelstein and Alexander Fantalkin, “Khirbet Qeiyafa: An Unsensational Archaeological and Historical Interpretation.” Tel Aviv 39 (2012): 38–63.
A. M. Honeyman, “The Evidence for Regnal Names among the Hebrews.” Journal of Biblical Literature 67 (1948): 13–25.
Peggy L. Day, An Adversary in Heaven: śāṭān in the Hebrew Bible. Harvard Semitic Monographs 43. Scholars Press, 1988.
Cited on Day 4 · Among the Ashes
Will Kynes, My Psalm Has Turned into Weeping: Job’s Dialogue with the Psalms. BZAW 437. De Gruyter, 2012.
Job 7:17–18 and Psalm 8.
Cited on Day 5 · A Brook in the Heat
David J. A. Clines, Job 1–20. Word Biblical Commentary 17. Word Books, 1989.
On Job 13:15.
Cited on Day 6 · Hope for a Tree
Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. 3rd edition. Fortress Press, 2012.
On ketiv and qere.
Cited on Day 6 · Hope for a Tree