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Footnotes

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See BAR’s Bicentennial Salute—The United States Navy Explores the Holy Land” by Emanuel Levine, BAR 02:04.

Endnotes

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Genesis 14:3; Numbers 34:3, 12; Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 3:16, 12:3, 15:2, 5, 18:19. It is also called yam haarabaÆ, “Sea of the Aravah,” (Deuteronomy 3:17, 4:49; Joshua 3:16, 12:3; 2 Kings 14:25), and yam haggadmoÆni, “East[ern]/Former Sea” (Ezekiel 47:18; Joel 2:20; Zechariah 14:8).

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Pausanias, Periegesis 5.7, 4–5.

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Barry J. Beitzel, The Moody Atlas of Bible Lands (Chicago: Moody Press, 1985), p. 2.

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For additional information, see Atlas of Israel, 3rd ed. (Tel Aviv: Survey of Israel, 1985), pp. 14–15.

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J. Neumann, Science Bulletin, Research Council of Israel 7, (1958), pp. 137–163.

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Josephus, The Jewish War 4.8.4; cf. Pilgrim of Bordeaux, annotated edition of P. Wesseling, Vetera Romanorum Itinera (Amsterdam: Wetstenium & Smith, 1735); cf. John Wilkinson, Egeria’s Travels to the Holy Land (Jerusalem: Ariel, 1981), pp. 161–163.