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About The Author
Dr. Michael Burer is Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is the assistant project director for the NET Bible and has contributed various studies to the bible.org site. His first book - A New Reader's Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, co-authored with Jeff Miller - was published Fall of 2008.
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Yigael Yadin's "The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands" is footnoted* by Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager in their book, "Life in Biblical Israel." While talking about the more than 400 biblical references to "sword" and "sheath," King & Stager say that "Hebrew makes no distinction between the straight sword and the sickle sword, so called because of its curved shape. . . . The sickle sword was known as 'khopesh' (foreleg of an animal) in Egyptian, and perhaps 'kidon' in Hebrew*" (page 224).