Biblical Archaeology Review

This text states that the Exodus occurred 480 years before Solomon began to build the Temple.

The author of Deuteronomy 2 regarded the peoples destroyed in these verses as Amorite populations.

The Amarna era refers to the period of the Amarna letters, roughly the 14th century B.C.

To the best of my knowledge, William Rainey Harper pioneered the method for Hebrew in Introductory Hebrew Method and Manual (1881), and for Greek, in collaboration with R. F. Weidner, in New Testament Greek Method (1888). For historical and bibliographical details, see William S. La Sor, “The Inductive Merhod of Learning Hebrew: Its Advantages and Pitfalls,” in Hebrew Teaching and Applied Linguistics, ed. Moshe Nahir (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1981), pp. 205–226.

The Hebrew cognate would be yad elim.

Peter C. Craigie, “The Tablets from Ugarit and Their Importance for Biblical Study,” BAR 09:05).

Similar jugs with a doubled rim, a ring base and a single handle were found in Stratum 12 at Arad, which is dated from the end of the 11th to the beginning of the 10th century B.C. In Tell Beit Mirsim, Stratum A, two additional, similar jugs were found, belonging to the ninth to eighth centuries B.C. From the end of the tenth century came a similar jar from Ta’anach Stratum IIb. In Lachish, Stratum III (900–700 B.C.) and Megiddo, Strata III–IV and VI (1150–650 B.C.) other jugs were found comparable to the Eshtemoa jugs.

See Yigael Yadin, “The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll,” BAR 10:05.

“Literary Sources of the Temple Scroll,” Harvard Theological Review, vol. 75 (1982), pp. 275–288.