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Apparently hiding the weapon on the side from which a left-hander would naturally draw it helped the plan succeed, perhaps because the Moabite guards may only have checked the other side.

“Antagonisms in Historical and Radiocarbon Chronology,” in A.J. Shortland and C. Bronk Ramsey, eds., Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt (Oxford: Oxbow, 2013), pp. 78–110.

The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR).

Actually the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego.

Nash Papyrus: שמ[עישרא]ל יחוח אלחינו יחוח אחד חוא (“Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one”).

LXX: Ἂκουε, ισρΑηλ· κύριος ὁ ϑεός ἡμῶΝ κύριος εἷς ἐστιΝ (“Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one”).

André Lemaire, The Birth of Monotheism (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2007).

See J. Gerald Janzen, “On the Most Important Word in the Shema (Deuteronomy vi 4–5),” Vetus Testamentum 37 (1987), pp. 280–300; see also John A. Emerton, “New Light on Israelite Religion: The Implications of the Inscriptions from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 94 (1982), pp. 2–20.