Beer-sheba of the Patriarchs
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Footnotes
Beer-sheba is sometimes spelled Beer-sheva because that is the way it is pronounced in modern Hebrew. We use “b” instead of “v” because it is the customary spelling of the English Bible.
Endnotes
John Van Seters, Abraham in History and Tradition, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1975. T. L. Thompson, The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives, Berlin and New York, 1974.
See also: Nahum M. Sarna, “Abraham in History,” BAR 03:04; John Van Seters, “Dating in Patriarchal Stories,” BAR 04:04; William H. Stiebing, Jr., “When Was the Age of the Patriarchs?” BAR 01:02.
See: Ze’ev Meshel, History of the Negev in the Time of the Kings of Judah, Ph.D. Dissertation, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1974 [Hebrew].
See “King David as Builder,” BAR 01:01.