On Data and Its Interpretation

I was pleased to see four reputable scholars dedicate such a long discussiona to refuting my putative interpretation of the cultic paraphernalia from Moẓa as those of figurines representing a rider on a horse.b In my iconographic analysis, which was based on similar artifacts from other sites, I further raised the question of whether the Moẓa figure is the image of the god worshiped in ancient Judah.c The authors of the critical response made two concluding points: (1) “The finds from Qeiyafa and Moẓa provide a significant contribution to the study of cult and religion in Israel and Judah, […]