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1. Bruce J. Malina, “The Received View and What It Cannot Do: III John and Hospitality,” Semia Studies 35 (1986): 181.
2. Scott Morschauser, “‘Hospitality,’ Hostiles and Hostages: On the Legal Background to Genesis 19.1–9,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 27 (2003): 461–85.
3. Other examples from the Hebrew Bible include Genesis 24, 29; Exodus 2; Joshua 2:1–21; and Judges 1.
4. Christine D. Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 1999), 29.
5. See Victor H. Matthews, “Hospitality and Hostility in Judges 4,” Biblical Theology Bulletin 21 (1991): 13–21; Bob Stallman, “Divine Hospitality in the Pentateuch: A Metaphorical Perspective on God as Host” (PhD diss., Westminster Theological Seminary [Philadelphia, Pa.], 1999); Malina, 171–86; T. R. Hobbs, “Hospitality in the First Testament and the ‘Teleological Fallacy,’” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 26 (2001): 3–29; R. A. Wright, “The Establishing of Hospitality in the Old Testament” (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Yale University, 1989).
6. For specific New Testament examples of this ethic of hospitality, see Malina, “The Recieved View,” 184–85.
7. Matthews, “Hospitality and Hostility,” 14.
8. Pohl, Making Room, 13.
9. Peter J. Sorensen, “The Lost Commandments: The Sacred Rites of Hospitality,” BYU Studies 44, no. 1 (2005): 21.
10. Waldemar Janzen, Old Testament Ethics: A Paradigmatic Approach (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994), 208.
11. Pohl, Making Room, 26.
12. Sorensen, “The Lost Commandments,” 22–23.
13. We would like to thank the reviewers for their helpful input. One reviewer points out that most of the references to “strangers” in the Book of Mormon come from the brass plates. Perhaps this is because the Lehites saw themselves as a family, and the concept of a stranger therefore did not therefore apply in their new environment.
14. Thomas W. Ogletree, Hospitality to the Stanger (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985), 2–3.
15. Sorensen, “The Lost Commandments,” 22.
16. Pohl, Making Room, 27.
17. Hobbs, “Hospitality in the First Testament,” 11.
18. Ibid., 29.
19. Ibid., 5.
20. Pohl, Making Room, 7.
21. Janzen, Old Testament Ethics, 43.
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