Footnote 2 – Has Joshua’s Altar Been Found on Mt. Ebal?

The possible exception is an open-air cult center also from the period of the Judges. This site was found very recently. It was investigated by Amihai Mazar, who has already written a report for BAR readers (“Bronze Bull Found in Israelite ‘High Place’ from the Time of the Judges,” BAR 09:05). This cult center was built on a mountain, as was our site. It was surrounded by an elliptical wall, as was our site. But if it had an altar, it was preserved only in a single stone about four feet long, three feet high and about one and three-fourths feet thick.