Polemic refers to forceful language or writing aimed at opposing, criticizing, or discrediting another view, group, or practice. It is intentionally argumentative and shaped by conflict rather than neutral explanation.
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- Beale, G. K., The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John
- Smith, Mark S., "When the Heavens Darkened: Yahweh, El, and the Divine Astral Family in Iron Age II Judah" in Dever, William G., and Seymour Gitin (eds.) Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina
- Hughes, Julie A., Scriptural Allusions and Exegesis in the Hodayot
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