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Yigael Yadin, “Danaans and Danites,” BAR 02:02. See also Yadin’s “And Dan, Why Did He Remain in Ships?” Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology 1 (1968), pp. 9–23 and Lawrence E. Stager, “When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02.
James D. Muhly, “How Iron Technology Changed the Ancient World and Gave the Philistines a Military Edge,” BAR 08:06.
See Lawrence E. Stager, “When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon,” BAR 17:02.
For more on Akrotiri see Christos G. Doumas, “High Art from the Time of Abraham,” BAR 17:01.
See Claude F. A. Schaeffer, “The Last Days of Ugarit,” BAR 09:05, also see James M. Robinson, “An Appreciation of Claude Frederic-Armand Schaeffer Forrer (1898–1982),” BAR 9:05.
But see Bryant G. Wood’s article “The Philistines Enter Canaan,” in this issue, for a different view of the relationship of the Sea Peoples to the Egyptians.—Ed.
Although, theoretically, Josephus may have joined the Roman army during the siege, there is no data. However, I believe that there is a basis for his testimony that “an old woman and another, a relative of Eleazar, superior in sagacity and training to most of her sex, with five children, escaped by concealing themselves in the subterranean aqueducts, while the rest were absorbed in the slaughter” (The Jewish War 7.399), which could describe what happened.
The scholars involved in this project, and their areas of responsibility, are Gideon Foerster and Ehud Netzer, coordinators, Ehud Netzer, description of the site and architecture; Gideon Foerster architectural elements and background; Joseph Naveh, Hebrew and Aramaic ostraca; Ya’akov Meshorer, coins; Hanna M. Cotton and Joseph Geiger, Latin and Greek documents; Rachel Bar Natan, ceramics; Dan Barag and Malka Hershkoviz, lamps; Avigdal Sheffer, textiles; Shemaryahu Talmon, scrolls.
