The Many Masters of Dor, Part 2: How Bad Was Ahab?
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Footnotes
B.C.E. (Before the Common Era), used by this author, is the alternate designation corresponding to B.C. often used in scholarly literature.
See Ephraim Stern, “Excavations at Tell Mevorakh Are Prelude to Tell Dor Dig,” BAR 05:03.
See Neil Asher Silberman, “Glossary: A Question of Defense—Glacis, Casemate Wall and Offset-Inset Wall,” BAR 15:03.
There is, however, considerable dispute among archaeologists as to whether these buildings are stables or storehouses (see John O. Currid, “Puzzling Public Buildings,” BAR 18:01; see also “Megiddo Stables or Storehouses?” BAR 02:03, and Yigael Yadin, “In Defense of the Stables at Megiddo,” BAR 02:03. In my view, they were stables.
See Ephraim Stern, “What Happened to the Cult Figurines? Israelite Religion Purified After the Exile,” BAR 15:04).
See John C.H. Laughlin, “The Remarkable Discoveries at Tel Dan,” BAR 07:05; and Hershel Shanks, “Avraham Biran—Twenty Years of Digging at Tel Dan,” BAR 13:04.
Endnotes
See James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), pp. 278–283.
Nahman Avigad, “A Hebrew Seal Depicting a Sailing Ship,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 246 (1982), pp. 59–61].