Footnotes

1.

Avraham Biran and Joseph Naveh, “An Aramaic Stele Fragment from Tel Dan,” Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993), pp. 81–98; see also “‘David’ found at Dan,” BAR 20:02.

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For specific details, consult my forthcoming review of Davies’s book In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’ to appear soon in The Journal of the American Oriental Society. I am also preparing a review of Thomas Thompson’s Early History of the Israelite People from the Written & Archaeological Sources, which reveals the author’s lack of archaeological, textual and linguistic competence in dealing with original source material.