Please use the attached resources to write this paper. (No Outside Resources) Times New Roman. 12pt.

1. Provide the FULL citation(Born of the gave) source at the top: author, title, journal or publisher, year of publication.
2. In the first paragraph, summarize the author's primary points. (Born of the gave)
3. In the second paragraph, describe briefly what this resource added to your group's conversation. For example, did it give insight into one of the study questions?( I attached the study questions below in ln case you want to look at them. Did it challenge something in the"Double cave, Double talk? Did it address something not otherwise addressed by the assigned reading?
4. In the third and final paragraph, provide your own evaluation of the author's argument or points being made.how well the author makes his/her argument.

Study questions

1. What, on first reading of Gen 23, jumps out as you as "something doesn't make sense here"?
2. Consider the "Genesis 23 Scenes and Structure" chart. What is Abraham's goal? What is the Hittites' goal? What does each give up to reach an agreement?
3. How, according to Sternberg, do "politeness, politics and profit" interweave to lead this negotiation to a mutually acceptable conclusion?
4. What purposes might this story have in the larger frame of Genesis, assuming exile as the place and time of composition? Note, for example, other relationships between YHWH's people and "others."
5. What do you think of the option of acquiring "the promised land" by purchase, rather than, say, by conquest (as in the Joshua/Judges narratives)? By what criteria to you evaluate this option?