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Chambers, Nathan J. Reconsidering Creation Ex Nihilo in Genesis 1 Eisenbrauns, 2020
Gregory, Bradley C. "The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Venerable Bede’s Commentary on Tobit" in Passaro, Angelo (ed.) Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature De Gruyter, 2013
Barr, James "Was Everything That God Created Really Good? A Question in the First Verse of the Bible" in Barton, John (ed.) Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr, Volume II: Biblical Studies Oxford University Press, 2013
Kotzé, Annemaré Augustine’s Confessions: Communicative Purpose and Audience Brill, 2004
Karfíková, Lenka Grace and the Will according to Augustine Brill, 2012
de Wet, Chris L. The Book of Tobit in Early Christianity: Greek and Latin Interpretations from the 2nd to the 5th Century CE HTS Teologiese Studies Vol. 76, No. 4, 2020

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Chukkim 28 Heavenly Languages 15 Sympathetic Magic 10 Hillel and Shammai 20 Hybrid Creatures 13 The Second Exodus 23 Exodus in Genesis 13 Abraham, Friend of God 16 Kothar wa-Hasis 5 Two Powers in Heaven 19 Wayward Stars 14 Greco-Roman Household Codes 35 Kal Va'chomer 11 God is a Character 29 Ben Sira the Rabbi 8 Masoretic Additions 6 Masoretic Deletions 7 Divine Bodies 88 World Tree 19 Angelic Intermediaries 3

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