Endnote 19 – Ammon, Moab and Edom: Gods and Kingdoms East of the Jordan

See the cautious comments of David Vanderhooft, “The Edomite Dialect and Script: A Review of the Evidence,” in Diana Vikander Edelman, ed., You Shall Not Abhor an Edomite for He Is Your Brother: Edom and Seir in History and Tradition, Archaeology and Biblical Studies 3 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), p. 151. Qausgabri of Edom is named among those supplying labor and materials for Esarhaddon’s building projects in Nineveh (c. 673 B.C.E.; ANET 291) and providing assistance in Ashurbanipal’s wars against Egypt (beginning 669 or 667 B.C.E.; ANET 294).