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J.B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaicarum, vol. 1, prol. p. 82; discussion in Emil Schürer, History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, ed. Geza Vermes and Fergus Millar (Edinburgh: Clark, 1973–), vol. 3, p. 65.

An important milestone in historical scholarship on the United Monarchy is Albrecht Alt’s classic essay, “The Formation of the Israelite State in Palestine,” in Alt, Essays on Old Testament History and Religion (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967; German original, 1930). The current controversy convinces me that this essay is still the finest treatment of the subject.

See Mordechai Cogan, 1 Kings, Anchor Bible series (New York: Doubleday, 2000), p. 315.

The legend is recorded in the second century C.E. by the Egyptian Greek lexicographer Julius Pollox in his Onomasticon 10.45.

See G.F. Hill, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Phoenicia (London: British Museum, 1910, pp. cxxii-cxxxix.

Nira Karmon and Ehud Spanier, Archeological Evidence of the Purple Dye Industry from Israel (Jerusalem: Keter, 1987).

Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, “Mémoire sur le Pourpre,” Annales des Sciences Naturelles comprenant la Zoologie, la Botanique, 4th series, no. 12 (1859), pp. 5–84.

Pliny, Natural History, 9.125–128.

In Deuteronomy 33:19, Zebulun is told that the blessing of his tribe is “those things buried in the sand.” The Talmud explains that “those things buried” refers to the tekhelet snail (chilazon).