Endnotes

1.

(Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1994).

2.

(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003).

3.

(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1980).

4.

Frank M. Cross and David Noel Freedman, “Early Hebrew Orthography: A Study of the Epigraphic Evidence” (New Haven, CT: AOS, 1952).

5.

See Noel Freedman’s obituary by Astrid Beck, “David Noel Freedman (1922–2008),BAR 34:04, and my letter to Noel: www.biblicalarchaeology.org/freedman.