Endnote 18 – There Was No Gap

Stern, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods, p. 308. Among the Biblical scholars, archaeologists, historians and epigraphers assembled at a recent (May 29–31, 2001) conference on the Neo-Babylonian period at Tel Aviv University, there was broad though not unanimous agreement on continuity of material culture during the last phase of Iron Age II.