Endnote 2 – Cow Town or Royal Capital?

Although Philip Davies, one of the leading Biblical revisionists, has called this term a “sneering epithet,” Yale University scholar William Hallo has characterized it as “fairly innocuous” (“Biblical History in Its Near Eastern Setting: The Contextual Approach,” in Scripture in Context, ed. Carl D. Evans, William W. Hallo and John B. White [Pittsburgh, PA: Pickwick, 1980], p. 3).