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Footnotes
Avraham Faust, “Israel: An Egalitarian Society,” BAR 39:04.
Hershel Shanks, “An Ancient Israelite House in Egypt?” BAR, 19:04.
Manfred Bietak, “Israelites Found in Egypt—Four-Room House Identified in Medinet Habu,” BAR 29:05.
Lidar Sapir-Hen, “Pigs as an Ethnic Marker? You Are What You Eat,” BAR 42:06.
Endnotes
As the entry on “Four-Room House” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East puts it, “it seems legitimate to call this the Israelite House.” On the other hand, Bar-Ilan University professor Aren Maeir argues—in his review of Avraham Faust’s The Archaeology of Israelite Society in Iron Age II in Review of Biblical Literature 09/2003—that there are “too many examples of this structure type [that have] been reported at non-Israelite/Judahite sites to enable a simplistic connection between this house and Israelite/Judahite culture,” citing as an example the four-room house at ‘Umayri in Jordan referred to later in this essay.
Although the site is often spelled ‘Umeiri, the official spelling adopted by the Jordanian government is ‘Umayri.
Larry G. Herr and Douglas R. Clark, “From the Stone Age to the Middle Ages in Jordan: Digging up Tall al-‘Umayri,” Near Eastern Archaeology 72.2 (2009), p. 85.