Bible Review

Many Tables: The Eucharist in the New Testament and Liturgy Today, pp. 33–34.

The rules for “sojourners” (“aliens who reside among you”) included restrictions on consuming blood (Leviticus 17:10–16), idolatry (17:7–9) and incest (18:6–26). These were further elaborated in rabbinic tradition. See Alan Segal, Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), pp. 194–201.

See Dennis E. Smith and Hal E. Taussig, Many Tables: The Eucharist in the New Testament and Liturgy Today (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990), pp. 21–35.

See my articles in The Anchor Bible Dictionary 4, pp. 650–655, “Meal Customs (Greco-Roman)” and “Meal Customs (Sacred Meals).”

Barbara Bell, “Climate and the History of Egypt: The Middle Kingdom,” American Journal of Archaeology 79 (1975), pp. 223–269; Butzer, Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt, pp. 29, 31.

Leading archaeologists still disagree about whether the seminomads of EB IV Palestine were remnants of the EB III population or invaders from is the outside. See, for example, William Dever, “From the End of the Early Bronze Age to the Beginning of the Middle Bronze,” in Biblical Archaeology Today (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1985), pp. 113–135; Suzanne Richard, “The Early Bronze Age;” and A. Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, pp. 169–171.

Barbara Bell, “The Dark Ages in Ancient History: 1. The First Dark Age in Egypt” American Journal of Archaeology 75 [1971], pp. 1–26. Bell’s conclusions, based on analysis of textual evidence, have been supported by studies of past levels of the lakes that serve as sources of the Nile. See Karl Butzer, Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1976), pp. 28–33.

See, for example, Suzanne Richard, “The Early Bronze Age: The Rise and Collapse of Urbanism,” Biblical Archaeologist 50, 1 (March, 1987), pp. 22–43 and A. Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 10,000–586 B.C.E. (New York: Doubleday, 1990), pp. 108–144.

J.L. Bintliff, “Climatic Change, Archaeology and Quaternary Science in the Eastern Mediterranean Region,” in Climatic Change in Later Prehistory, ed. A.F. Harding, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1982), pp. 147–148. See also in the same work, H.H. Lamb, “Reconstruction of the Course of Postglacial Climate Over the World,” p. 29.

H. Weiss, M-A. Courty, W. Wetterstrom, F. Guichard, L. Senior, R. Meadow, and A. Curnow, “The Genesis and Collapse of Third Millennium North Mesopotamian Civilization,” Science (August 20, 1993), pp. 995–1004. See also the news reports by J. Wilford, “Collapse of Earliest Known Empire is Linked to Long, Harsh Drought,” New York Times (August 24, 1993), p. C-1, and C. Gorman, “Mystery of the 300-year Drought,” Time (August 30, 1993), p. 46.