Endnote 6 – Ammon, Moab and Edom: Gods and Kingdoms East of the Jordan

This geographically “segmented” kingdom model represented by Moab has been identified by Bruce Routledge, Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). For the Egyptian texts of Ramses II mentioning Moab, see Kenneth A. Kitchen, “The Egyptian Evidence on Ancient Jordan,” in P. Bienkowski, ed., Early Edom and Moab: The Beginning of the Iron Age in Southern Jordan (Sheffield: Collis, 1992), pp. 27–28.