one from Gen 21:12 (11:18) and one from Gen 47:31 (11:21). But within 11:3–31, we can catch at least twenty-eight separate allusions to Genesis, Exodus, and Joshua. As the intensity of the encomium increases, so does the density of scriptural allusion. In the seven verses of 11:32–38, there are some thirty-two allusions to Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, Daniel, 2 Maccabees, 2 Chronicles, and possibly even the Martyrdom of Isaiah. The encomium thus summons a great “cloud of witnesses” to cheer