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See Yigael Yadin, “In Defense of the Stables at Megiddo,” BAR 02:03; “Megiddo Stables or Storehouses?” BAR 02:03; John D. Currid, “Puzzling Public Buildings,” BAR 18:01.

Solomon divided the country into 12 districts The boundaries of some of them did not follow old tribal lines, an apparent effort to break down old tribal loyalties.

See Hershel Shanks, “Ancient Ivory—The Story of Wealth, Decadence and Beauty,” BAR 11:05.

Tikva Frymer-Kensky, “What the Babylonian Stories Can and Cannot Teach Us About the Genesis Flood,” BAR 04:04.

A broadroom is a rectangular room with its entrance on one of the long sides.

Syriac is an Aramaic dialect, the language of the Syrian Christians whose center was in Edessa (modern Urfa in south Turkey), where the Syriac translation of the Bible originated. Today Syriac is the sacred language and script of the so-called Assyrian church.

4Q stands for Qumran Cave 4. The number 448 is the arbitrary number assigned to the text.

See André Lemaire, “Populations et territoires de la Palestine a l’epoque perse,” in Transeuphratene 3 (1990), pp. 31–74. Also, Benjamin Mazar’s landmark article on the Tobiads is still useful: “The Tobiads,” Israel Exploration Journal 7 (1957), pp. 357–366.

Cyrus Thomas, “Mound Explorations,” in Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1890–1891 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894).