Biblical Archaeology Review

References available on request.

References available on request.

See his footnote, p. 76.

See Lawrence E. Stager and Samuel R. Wolff, “Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control?” BAR 10:01.—Ed.

Compare the far more nuanced, careful and appropriately cautious discussion and limited conclusions presented by Moshe Kochavi and by Amihai Mazar in Biblical Archaeology Today (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1985).

As Lawrence Stager recently noted, “These hill people, whom Albright correctly identified with the early Israelites, were able to establish new settlements in formerly uninhabited areas ‘thanks to the rapid spread of the art … of constructing cisterns and lining them with waterproof lime plaster’,” citing Albright’s 1960 book, The Archaeology of Palestine. Stager, “The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 260 (1985), p. 9.

William G. Dever, “Biblical Theology and Biblical Archaeology: An Appreciation of G. Ernest Wright,” Harvard Theological Review 13 (1980), p. 1.

Compare Dever’s claim that “the result [of recent innovations] is already clearly something so radically different that we must distinguish it, for better or worse, as the ‘new archaeology’.” “The Impact of the ‘New Archaeology’ on Syro-Palestinian Archaeology,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 242 (1981), p. 18.

Norman Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible—A Socio-Literary Introduction (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985); The Tribes of Yahweh (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1979) and “Were the Early Israelites Pastoral Nomads?” BAR 04:02. See also P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., “A Major New Introduction to the Bible,” Bible Review, Summer 1986.