Footnotes

1.

The shortened form of Yahweh used in names in the southern kingdom, Judah, was –yahu.

2.

For the gates and tomb, see John C. H. Laughlin, “The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan,” BAR 07:05; for the scepter head, see Avraham Biran, “Prize Find: Tel Dan Scepter Head,” BAR 15:01. Also see Hershel Shanks, BAR Interview: Avraham Biran—Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan,” BAR 13:04.

Endnotes

1.

See the following BAR articles: Avraham Biran, “Prize Find: Tel Dan Scepter Head,” BAR 15:01; Hershel Shanks, BAR Interview: Avraham Biran—Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan,” BAR 13:04; John C. H. Laughlin, “The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan,” BAR 07:05.

2.

From the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

3.

Avraham Biran and Joseph Naveh, “An Aramaic Stele Fragment from Tel Dan,” Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993), pp. 81–98.

4.

See Palestine Exploration Quarterly 100 (1968), pp. 42–44.

5.

For a discussion, see Biran and Naveh, “An Aramaic Stele Fragment from Tel Dan,” Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993), pp. 95–98.