David Ascendant (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 7) (48 page)

[29]
B. Mazar, "The Military Élite of King David,"
Vetus Testamentum
, Vol. 13, Fasc. 3 (Jul., 1963), 312.

[30]
James McConkey Robinson, Richard Smith and Coptic Gnostic Library Project,
The Nag Hammadi Library in English
, 4th rev. ed., 173 (Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill, 1996).

[31]
S. Münger, “Ariel,” ed. Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, and Pieter W. van der Horst,
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
(Leiden; Boston; Köln; Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge: Brill; Eerdmans, 1999), 89. Münger refers to the
Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan
(P. M. Fischer,
ADAJ
40 [1996] 101–110, esp. 103–104 with figs. 3a-b).

[32]
850 B.C.

[33]
S. Münger,
DDD
, 89. Pritchard’s
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament
translates
ariel
as the name of the king of the city, and Hallo’s Context of Scripture translates it as the more unlikely object,
fire hearth
. James Bennett Pritchard, ed.,
The Ancient Near East an Anthology of Texts and Pictures, 3rd ed. with Supplement
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), 320; William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger,
Context of Scripture
(Leiden;  Boston: Brill, 2000), 137.

[34]
B. Mazar, "The Military Élite of King David,"
Vetus Testamentum
, Vol. 13, Fasc. 3 (Jul., 1963), pp. 316.

[35]
Johnson, Ken (2012-01-09).
Ancient Book Of Jasher
(p. 129).  Kindle Edition.

[36]
Johnson,
Book Of Jasher
(p. 223).

[37]
Steve A. Wiggins, “Old Testament Dagan in the Light of Ugarit,”
Vetus Testamentum
, Vol. 43, Fasc. 2 (Apr., 1993), 370.

[38]
T. C. Mitchell, “Dagon,” ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley,
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
, Revised (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988), 851; Lowell K. Handy, “Dagon (Deity),” ed. David Noel Freedman,
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
(New York: Doubleday, 1992), 2.

[39]
It is now thought by some that Dagon as a fish-man may have been etiologically influenced by Atargatis, a mermaid goddess of nearby Philistine Ashkelon and by the Sumerian fish-man god Odakon as interpreted by the Babylonian historian Berossus. Frank J.. Montalbano, “Canaanite Dagon: Origin, Nature,”
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
, 13 no 4 O 1951, p 395.

[40]
Montalbano “Canaanite Dagon,” p 381-397.

[41]
Mark S. Smith,
The Ugaritic Baal Cycle: Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU 1.1-1.2, vol. 1
(Leiden; New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1994), 293.

[42]
Wiggins, “Old Testament Dagan,” 372.

[43]
John Day, “Asherah in the Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Literature,”
Journal of Biblical Literature,
Vol. 105, No. 3 (Sep., 1986), 391-92. While the Scriptures are replete with many calls to Israelites to repent from worshipping Ba’al and Asherah, there is no Biblical indication that Israel ever worshipped Dagon, the god of the Philistines.

[44]
John Day, “Asherah in the Hebrew Bible,” 387.

[45]
K. G. Jung, “Asherah,” ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley,
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
(Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988), 317–318.

[46]
John Day, “Asherah in the Hebrew Bible,” 402.