1. Saul M. Olyan, Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 28 and 140–41, n. 5.
2. Erhard Gerstenberger, “atar” TDOT 11, ed. G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry (Grand Rapids, MI, and Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2001), 458, 460.
3. Robert Alter, “How Convention Helps Us Read: The Case of the Bible’s Annunciation Type-Scene,” Proofiexts 3 (1983): 115–30.
4. Alan Cooper and Bernard R. Goldstein, “The Development of the Priestly Calendars (I): The Daily Sacrifice and the Sabbath,” HUCA 74 (2003): 12.
5. Heather A. McKay, Sabbath and Synagogue: The Question of Sabbath Worship in Ancient Judaism (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 122; Leiden: Brill, 1994), 15.