Footnote 5 – What’s a Bamah? How Sacred Space Functioned in Ancient Israel

Contemporaneous sacred places belonging to non-Israelites, including the Philistines (at Ashdod and Miqne) and the Edomites (at Horvat Qitmit; see Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, “New Light on the Edomites,” BAR 14:02) have also been excavated.