The notes are helpful but
occasionally require amplification. . . . On p. 376 [36] § 803 the note on the
three-leaved hinged writing boards ought to contain reference to a hitherto
misunderstood passage in the Old Testament, which may now be translated 'Man,
take one leaf (sc. of a folding tablet of wood) and write on it "Judah . .
."; then take another (i.e. אחד, as in LXX, Vulg., Pesh.) leaf and write
on it "Joseph, which is Ephraim...".' Now bring the two together 'to
form one tablet, and they will become ones [i.e. a pair, sc. one folding tablet
of two leaves].... I am taking the leaf of Joseph which belongs to Ephraim . .
. and joining it to the leaf of Judah. Thus I shall make them one tablet, and
they shall be one in my hand; and the leaves on which you write shall be
visible in your hand for all to see' (Ezek. xxxvii. 16-20). Thus the discovery
of folding tablets, hitherto not known amongst the Semites, at Nineveh clears
up the mysterious words of the prophet (cf. Targ.'s לוחא in vv. 16, 17,
20 against שׁבטאin v. 19). (G. R. Driver, “Reviews,”
Journal of Theological Studies 22, no. 2 [October 1971]: 549-50)
