1. Jeff S. Anderson, “The Social Function of Curses in the Hebrew Bible,” ZAW 110 (1998): 223–37
2. Paul Arden Keim, “When Sanctions Fail: The Social Function of Curse in Ancient Israel” (PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 1992). An earlier version of this chapter was presented to the Bible and Cultural Studies Section, Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, Atlanta, November 2003. My thanks to Alexandra Cuffel for comments on a draft of this chapter.
3. James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
4. James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 14.
5. Max Weber, Ancient Judaism, trans. Hans H. Gerth and Don Martindale (Glencoe: Free Press, 1952), 256–57.