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We find the same phenomenon for Nabonidus at Teima and various Assyrian kings, such as Sargon, at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad).

See David Ussishkin, “King Solomon’s Palace and Building 1723 at Megiddo,” Israel Exploration Journal 16 (1966).

See, for example, Baruch Halpern, “Settlement of Canaan,” Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), with bibliography. Interestingly, in the handful of sites where archaeologists have are notable for their almost complete absence from what we would normally identify as Israelite levels.

See Jeremy Bernstein, “Julian. 1918–1994,” American Scholar (Spring, 1995).

See Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? (New York: Summit Books, 1987).

The main proponents are Thomas L. Thompson, J.W. Flanagan, D.W. Jamieson-Drake and Philip Davies. For a far better and actually constructive example of the method, see John S. Holladay, Jr., “Religion in Israel and Judah Under the Monarchy: An Explicitly Archaeological Approach,” in Ancient Israelite Religion. Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross, eds. Patrick D. Miller, Paul D. Hanson and S. Dean McBride (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987).

This affliction originates in the insecurity of professionals who, like the American Bar Association, attempt to limit access to their professions. Like attorneys, professional scholars do this in two ways: by writing obscurely and by insisting on ticket-punching that has nothing to do with the issue at hand. The pretense is a maintenance of standards. The idea is to discourage competition—not so much from people who lack technical knowledge as from those who have it.

See David Noel Freedman and Jeffrey C. Geoghegan, “‘House of David’ Is There!” BAR 21:02.

Philip R. Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers,” BAR 20:04.