Endnote 1 – The Image Destroyers

Bibliographic citations of the church sites where the deliberate damage occurred, along with many color photographs of the damage, can be found in Michele Piccirillo, The Mosaics of Jordan (Amman, Jordan: ACOR, 1993); in Robert Schick, The Christian Communities of Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule (Princeton, NJ: Darwin, 1995), esp. chap. 9; and in Piccirillo and Eugenia Alliata, Mount Nebo: New Archaeological Excavations, 1967–1997 (Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, 1998), esp. pp. 372–389.