¹ R. MASON, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Joel (Sheffield 1994) 45.

² G. GERLEMAN, Zephanija. Textkritisch und literarische untersucht (Lund 1942) 40; A.S. KAPELRUD, The Message of the Prophet Zephaniah (Oslo 1975) 34; C.-A. KELLER, Michée, Nahoum, Habakuk, Sophonie (CAT XIb; Geneva 1990) 199-200. L. SABOTTKA, Zephanja. Versuch einer Neuübersetzung mit philologischen Kommentar (BibOr 25; Rome 1972) 83-84, 91, appears, with some hesitation, to support the authenticity of 2,10-11.

³ A. BERLIN, Zephaniah (AB 25A; New York 1994) 110. Despite the lack of any firm basis in the Hebrew for the renderings of the Septuagint and Peshitta, they are nevertheless followed by KELLER, Sophonie, 203.

⁴ F. SCHWALLY, "Das Buch Ssefanyâ, eine historische-kritische Untersuchung", ZAW 10 (1890) 190; G. KRINETZKI, Zefanjastudien. Motiv- und Traditionskritik und Kompositions- und Redaktionkritik (Bern 1977) 259; R. EDLER, Das Kerygma des Profeten Zefanja (Freiburg i.B., 1984) 19. KELLER understands hzr as a Piel ("prophetic") perfect (Sophonie, 203), as does J.M.P. SMITH (Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Obadiah, Joel [ICC; Edinburgh 1911] 231).

⁵ E. BEN ZVI, A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Zephaniah (BZAW 198; Berlin 1991) 173

⁶ SABOTTKA, Zephanja, 90-91.

⁷ BEN ZVI, A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Zephaniah, 173; BERLIN, Zephaniah, 110.

⁸ SMITH, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Obadiah, Joel, 229.

⁹ BERLIN, Zephaniah, 110.

¹⁰ J.D.W. WATTS, The Books of Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk & Zephaniah (Cambridge 1975) 170.

¹¹ SMITH, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Obadiah, Joel, 228-229.

¹² T. JACOBSEN, "The Graven Image", Ancient Israelite Religion. Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross (eds. P.D. MILLER – P.D. HANSON – S.D. McBRIDE) (Phildelphia 1987) 16-17.

¹³ The text may be found in H.C. RAWLINSON, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (London 1861-1909) V pl. 33 cols. i. 44–ii. 17.

¹⁴ S. MORENZ, Egyptian Religion (London, 1973) 155. For more detailed information, see S. SMITH, "The Babylonian Ritual for Consecration and Induction of a Divine Statue", JRAS 1921, 37-60.

¹⁵ L.W. KING, Babylonian Boundary Stones and Memorial Tablets in the British Museum (London 1912) no. XXXVI.

¹⁶ T. JACOBSEN, "The Graven Image", 26-27. Text from RAWLINSON, The Cuneiform Inscriptions, IV pl. 25 col. iii. 42-66. Another version of the hymn may be found in E. EBELING, Tod und Leben nach der Vorstellungen der Babylonier (Berlin 1931) 120-21.

¹⁷ E.M. CURTIS, "Idol, Idolatry", ABD III, 378.

¹⁸ L.A. OPPENHEIM, Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (Chicago 1964) 191-193.

¹⁹ Ibid., 195.

²⁰ J. FAUR, "The Biblical Idea of Idolatry", JQR 69 (1978) 7.

²¹ K. HOLTER, Second Isaiah’s Idol Fabrication Passages (Frankfurt 1995); D. RUDMAN, "Creation and Fall in Jeremiah X 12-16", VT 48 (1998) 63-73.