Biblical Archaeology Review

This archaeological period is also referred to by some archaeologists as Early Bronze IV and by others as Middle Bronze I. Unfortunately, the terminology has not yet been standardized.

See the papers of Moshe Kochavi and Amihai Mazar in Biblical Archaeology Today (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1985), pp. 47–71; Lawrence E. Stager, “The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel,” BASOR 260 (1985), pp. 1–35; Israel Finkelstein, The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988), an updated synthesis of the archaeological evidence.

See my original article, “Bronze Bull Found in Israelite ‘High Place’ from the Time of the Judges,” BAR 09:05, and the more technical version, “The ‘Bull Site’: An Iron Age I Open Cult Place,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) 247 (1982), pp. 27–42.

Coogan originally presented these views in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly 119 (January/June 1987), pp. 1–8.

See Bathja Bayer, “The Finds That Could Not Be,” BAR 08:01.

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

On this clause, see David Noel Freedman, “But Did King David Invent Musical Instruments?” Bible Review, Summer 1985.

This example is adapted from my forthcoming volume, Amos, Hosea, Micah—An Archaeological Commentary (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988).

William F. Albright, who died in 1971, was the doyen of an earlier generation of Biblical archaeologists. He was a master of both Bible and archaeology.