M. B. Rowton, “Autonomy and Nomadism in Western Asia,” Orientalia 42 (1973), pp. 247–258, and “Urban Autonomy in a Nomadic Environment,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 32 (1973), pp. 201–215; for a general discussion of anthropology and Biblical studies, see John W. Rogerson, Anthropology and the Old Testament (Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, 1978).