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- ↑ "Danna Nolan Fewell". Drew University . Retrieved November 30, 2014.
- ↑ Adele Berlin, "Literary Approaches to Biblical Literature: General Observations and a Case Study of Genesis 34," in The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship, p. 57.
- ↑ David Penchansky, The Politics of Biblical Theology: A Postmodern Reading, p. 86.
- ↑ "Danna Nolan Fewell – John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible" . Retrieved May 18, 2023.
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