One early attempt to identify a blessing in a broken section of an Aramaic treaty from Sefire rests on the reconstruction of a single word containing three letters and found following a series of curses. Clearly, this could easily prove to be another curse if the full text were available. More widely accepted has been the attempt of Eckhard Otto and H. U. Steymans to study the curses of Deuteronomy and compare them with curses of similar content and form in the seventh-century-BC vassal treaty of