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Endnote 1 - Christian and Jewish Views of the Holy Land

Dan Bahat has suggested that the map should be redated to the second half of the seventh century since it depicts the Byzantine Gate of Mercy, which he believes was constructed in 629 C.E. for the visit of Heraclius on the eve of the Muslim conquest. See Dan Bahat, “A New Suggestion for the Date of the Madaba Map,” in Eretz-Israel in the Madaba Map, ed. Gabriel Barkay and Eli Schiller (Jerusalem: Ariel, 1996), pp. 74–75 (Hebrew).

Endnote 7 - David’s Threat to Nabal

See Joyce Baldwin, 1 & 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Commentary, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (Leicester, UK: InterVarsity, 1998), p. 147; Robert D. Bergen, 1, 2 Samuel, New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1996), p. 252 n. 131; Youngblood, 1, 2 Samuel, p. 752; and especially Moshe J. Garsiel, The First Book of Samuel: A Literary Study of Comparative Structures, Analogies and Parallels (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 1990), pp. 129–130.

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