Footnote 6 – Strata

See Ze’ev Meshel, “Kuntillet ‘Ajrud,” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 4, p. 103. Meshel makes the same suggestion in “Kuntillet ‘Ajrud,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Ancient Near East (New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), vol. 3, p. 310.