Biblical Archaeology Review

A variant reading for yitaga would be “get stuck” (in the city). Could it be that the phonebooths were too narrow for our hero?

“The Cities of the Territory of Dan,” Israel Exploration Journal Vol. 10, pp. 65–77 (1960).

Some scholars have suggested that because Achish king of Gath remitted certain fugitives to King Solomon at this time, this indicates Gath was already a dependency of Israel. The remission of these fugitives to their master, however, does not necessarily imply that Gath was a dependency of Israel. The extradition of refugees of all kinds (whether nobles or men of lower class) was not only one of the legal obligations imposed on a vassal state, but was also an article of a “parity treaty,” i.e. one between equally sovereign states.

The New English Bible, the Jerusalem Bible and the New Jewish Publication Society Bible all translate these words “calyxes and petals.” This is surely too literal and fails to convey the architectural reality of the term.

Incipient forms of the tripodal stand may have developed earlier (there are even some Late Bronze examples, from Beth Shean and Megiddo); but by the sixth century, the tripodal bronze or iron stands predominate.

“Tabernacling” is used by Professor Cross to translate the Hebrew word whose root skn means to “encamp” or to “tent.” It refers to the moveable place where Yahweh’s Glory dwelled on earth.

“But many of the priests and Levites and heads of families, who were old enough to have seen the former house, wept and wailed aloud when they saw the foundation of this house laid … ” (Ezra 3:12)