Footnotes

1.

Benjamin Mazar and Amihai Mazar. The views expressed here are mine alone, however.

2.

A temenos is an enclosure wall of a temple or holy area.

4.

I wonder if this pithos is the one pictured below.

5.

I would like to thank Amihai Mazar for allowing me to publish this evidence here. A report on the Iron Age I Giloh tower will be published soon.

6.

“An Israelite Village from the Days of the Judges,” BAR 04:03, by Moshe Kochavi and Aaron Demsky.

8.

The Mishnah (from the Hebrew, to “repeat”) is the body of Jewish oral law, specifically, the collection of oral laws compiled by Rabbi Judah the Prince in the second century.

9.

See M. Haran in Encylopedia Biblica, s.v. “Altar” (in Hebrew); and D. Conrad Studien zum Altargesetz (Marburg, 1968), pp. 123–139.

10.

John C. H. Laughlin, “The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan,” BAR 07:05.