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See Vassilios Tzaferis “Sussita Awaits the Spade,” BAR 16:05.

A dromos is an entrance passageway leading to a burial chamber.

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era), used by these authors, is the alternate designation corresponding to B.C. often used in scholarly literature.

See Anson F. Rainey, “Rainey’s Challenge,” BAR 17:06, and Frank. J. Yurco, “Yurco’s Response,” BAR 17:06.

See Frank J. Yurco, “3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt,” BAR 16:05.

A few recent authors, no doubt troubled by this connection, speculate that Easter is derived from a misspelling of the Latin hebdomada alba or albae, the white garments worn during the service. One author flatly claims that Bede was wrong and no such goddess is known in the mythologies of any Germanic tribe. It is unlikely that Bede was wrong. He was unusually thorough and scholarly for his time, and he had access to both enormous libraries and the great minds of the church.

For a more detailed discussion of Ebla’s relation to the Bible, see Alan Millard, “Ebla and the Bible—What’s Left (If Anything)?” BR 08:02.

Reviewed by James Muhly, Books in Brief, BAR 07:06.

See Suzanne F. Singer, “The Winter Palaces of Jericho,” BAR 03:02.

See Nahman Avigad, “The Epitaph of a Royal Steward from Siloam Village,” Israel Exploration Journal 3 (1953), pp. 137–152.