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Footnotes

1.

See “‘David’ Found at Dan,BAR 20:02.

2.

Literally “the ruin of.”

3.

A double, parallel line of walls divided into internal chambers by partition walls. This was a common method of defense for cities and towns in Iron Age Israel.

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Prize Find: Oldest Hebrew Inscription,BAR 36:02. See also Christopher A. Rollston, “What’s the Oldest Hebrew Inscription?” and Gerard Leval, “Ancient Inscription Refers to Birth of Israelite Monarchy,BAR 38:03.

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See Moshe Kochavi, “Tripartite Buildings: Divided Structures Divide Scholars,BAR 25:03.

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A region of foothills and valleys that lies between the coastal plain and the Judahite plateau.

Endnotes

1.

Israel Finkelstein in Robert Draper, “Kings of Controversy,” National Geographic, December 2010, pp. 67–91.