“... Sanders draws attention to KTU 1.40, a ritual for national atonement and unity that is the most important and broadly produced ritual known from Ugarit. [...] Among those atoned by the ritual are male and female members, even addressed directly with gender specific imperatives, as we see them listed in Josh 8:35 and Neh 8 numerous times. Like the Esarhaddon treaties, foreigners and natives are listed, as they are in Josh 8:33.57 The sovereign and the citizens are included, as in 2 Kgs 23. The lists are rounded out with other groups of leaders such as elders, officers, judges, prophets, levitical priests, inhabitants of the city and the region (Judah), young and great, and Neh 8’s catch-all “those who could understand.” [...] KTU 1.40 presents a model for this kind of addressee list in a unity ritual, demonstrating that a populace list may serve not merely to bind addressees to treaty obligations, but may also serve to unify and even benefit the whole society by atoning them. ...”