Biblical Archaeology Review

In addition, Gardiner restored a third sign meaning “my” and translated the phrase “father of my fathers.”

The article is titled “Did the Times Lose in the Translation?” Washington Journalism Review, March 1982.

Jewish War, I, 413.

An article by Robert L. Hohlfelder about the underwater archaeological investigations of Herod’s harbor at Caesarea starts in “Caesarea Beneath the Sea,” BAR 08:03.

From Flavius Josephus’ account of the burning of the Upper City of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D. The Jewish War, Book VI, 403–407, Loeb Classical Library III, p. 493.

“An Incised Handle from Hazor Depicting a Syro-Hittite Deity,” Israel Exploration Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1973, p. 234.

See Abraham Malamat, “The War of Gideon and Midian—A Military Approach,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 85 (1953), pp. 61–75.

This parallel has already been noted by Père Louis Felix Abel and subsequently by Yigael Yadin. Frontinus’ description of military strategy in the classical age contains further examples of stratagems described hereinafter in this article not previously alluded to in the Biblical context.

General Carl Von Clausewitz says, “War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. If we would conceive as a unit the countless number of duels which make up a War, we shall do so best by supposing to ourselves two wrestlers. Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will each endeavours to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance.” From Clausewitz, On War,(London, 1940), p. 1.