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PABLO R. ANDINACH
Buenos Aires
6
Cf. D. C. Hopkins,TheHighlands ofCanaan(Sheffield,1985); see fortherain-
fallpp. 91-4; forthesoil characteristics
pp. 130-2.0. Borowski,Agriculture inIron
AgeIsrael(Winona Lake, 1987), pp. 143-51,discussessoil fertility.
7 Alonso-Schokel
(n. 2), p. 930, pointsout thatthe textcould be understood
as havingthestructure ofa literaryliturgy,but was perhapsneverused in a real
servicein the temple.
8
We shall discuss below the textual decision on this verse.
9 D. Stuartfollowsthis emendation,
althoughhe interprets the locustsas a
militaryarmy:Hosea-Jonah (Waco, 1987), pp. 256, 260.
10
Wolff(n.2), p. 45; E. tr.,p. 39; and Stuart,p. 248, followthistranslation.
G. A. Smith,TheBookoftheTwelre ProphetsIf (rev. edn,London, 1928; New York,
1929), p. 408, decidesfor"to mock" on the basis of the parallelism.