Footnotes

1.

The Annual Meeting in Orlando was held on November 21–24, 1998. The Annual Meeting in Kansas City was held in November 1991. For my review of the Kansas City meeting, see “Not So Up-to-Date in Kansas City,” BAR 18:02.

2.

Nahman Avigad, Hebrew Bullae from the Time of Jeremiah (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1986); Hershel Shanks, “Jeremiah’s Scribe and Confidant Speaks from a Hoard of Clay Bullae,” BAR 13:05.

4.

For more on this debate, see Shanks, “Where Is the Tenth Century?” BAR 24:02.

Endnotes

1.

Israel Finkelstein, “The Archaeology of the United Monarchy: An Alternative View,” Levant 28 (1996), pp. 177–187; Amihai Mazar, “Iron Age Chronology: A Reply to I. Finkelstein,” Levant 29 (1997), pp. 155–165; Finkelstein, “Bible Archaeology or Archaeology of Palestine in the Iron Age? A Rejoinder,” Levant 30 (1998), pp. 167–174.

2.

Finkelstein, “Rejoinder,” p. 172.

3.

Finkelstein claims that the wood may originally have been used in another, older structure, therefore yielding a date earlier than the construction of the building. He recognizes, however, that in the end, carbon 14 dates may settle the argument. (“Rejoinder,” p. 170).

4.

Finkelstein, “United Monarchy,” p. 183.

5.

Nahman Avigad and Benjamin Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Israel Exploration Society/Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, 1997), no. 1067; and Robert Deutsch and Michael Heltzer, Forty New Ancient West Semitic Inscriptions (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publication, 1994), no. 24.