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See Ya’akov Meshorer, Ancient Jewish Coinage. Volume I: Persian Period Through Hasmonaeans (Dix Hills, NY: Amphora, 1982), pp, 21–26, for detailed discussion.

See for a few examples Ruth Hestrin, Michal Dayagi-Mendels, Seals from the Time of the First Temple: Hebrew, Ammonite, Moabite, Phoenician and Aramaic (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1975), nos. 3, 5, 6, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40–48, 50.

See James B. Pritchard, The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (ANEP), (Princeton: Princeton University, 2nd ed., 1969), no. 469.

See Amihai Mazar, “Bronze Bull Found in Israelite ‘High Place’ from the Time of the Judges,” BAR 09:05.

See Shemaryahu Talmon, “The Cult and Calendar Reform of Jeroboam I,” in King, Cult and Calendar in Ancient Israel. Collected Studies (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1986), pps. 113–139.

The Priestly source is one of the four literary strata from which the Pentateuch is composed, Most scholars date this stratum to the Exilic or post-Exilic period, although several scholars, especially in Israel, have dated it somewhat earlier.

See Deuteronomy 5:6–21.