Endnote 4 – Was King Saul Impaled on the Wall of Beth Shean?

For a summary of the old and new excavations at Beth Shean, see Amihai Mazar, “Beth Shean, Tel,” pp. 214–223, in E. Stern, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (rev. ed.), (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993); Amihai Mazar, “Four Thousand Years of History at Tel Beth Shean: An Account of the Renewed Excavations,” Biblical Archaeologist 60 (1997), pp. 62–76; Amihai Mazar, “Tel Beth Shean: History and Archaeology,” pp. 239–272 in Reinhard G. Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann, eds., in collaboration with B. Corzilius and T. Pilger, One God, One Cult, One Nation: Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 405) (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010); Amihai Mazar, “The Egyptian Garrison Town at Beth Shean,” in S. Bar, D. Kahn and J. Shirley, eds., Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature: Proceedings of a Conference at the University of Haifa, 3–7 May 2009 (Leiden: Brill 2011), pp. 155–189.

Final reports: Amihai Mazar, Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean, 1989–1996. Volume 1: From the New Kingdom to the Medieval Period (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University and Israel Exploration Society, 2006); Amihai Mazar and Robert A. Mullins, eds., Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989–1996, Volume II: The Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata in Area R (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University and Israel Exploration Society, 2007); Nava Panitz-Cohen and Amihai Mazar, eds., Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989–1996, Volume III: The 13th–11th Centuries B.C.E. (Areas S and N) (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University and Israel Exploration Society, 2009).