Endnote 4 – Surprises at Yattir: Unexpected Evidence of Early Christianity

See, for example, Michael Avi-Yonah, The Holy Land from the Persian to the Arab Conquest (586 B.C.-A.D. 640): A Historical Geography (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1977), p. 161: The Darom’s “distinguishing characteristic was that ut contained an unusually high number of Jewish settlements which had apparently survived Bar-Kokhba’s War.”