Endnote 1 - The Storm God of Aleppo Strikes Again
Ancient Near Eastern Texts, p. 320 [cited by T. Bolen, blog.bibleplaces.com].
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Endnote 11 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
G. Beckman, Hittite Diplomatic Texts, SBL Writings from the Ancient World Series 7 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996), pp. 105, 117.
Endnote 10 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
Timothy P. Harrison, “Neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin’: Renewed Investigations at Tell Tayinat on the Plain of Antioch,” NEA 72, pp. 174–189, esp. 185. See also the 2009 seasonal excavation report available on the TAP Web site: www.utoronto.ca/tap/reports/2009Report_en.pdf.
Endnote 9 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
Similar gradations are prescribed in Leviticus 4 for the purification offering (ḫaṭṭāt): The anointed priest offers a cattle (Leviticus 4:3–12); the community, a cattle (Leviticus 4:13–21); a prince, a male goat (Leviticus 4:22–26); and a commoner, a she-goat (Leviticus 4:26).
Endnote 8 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
NEA 72, p. 187.
Endnote 7 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
NEA 72, p. 172.
Endnote 6 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
Benjamin Sass, “Taita, King of Palistin: CA. 959–900 BCE,” in Cahiers de l’Institut du Proche-Orient Ancien du College de France III (2010). See also Benjamin Sass, “Four Notes on Taita King of Palistin with an Excursis on King Solomon’s Empire,” Tel Aviv 37 (2010).
Endnote 5 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
The large relief of the deity should not be considered the cult statue of the temple which would have been a free-standing, three-dimensional icon. The statue itself was undoubtedly plundered or otherwise lost at some time or other. The relief is only a two-dimensional depiction of the deity embodied in the lost statue. It is no more the cult statue than the relief of the king standing next to him is the real king.
Endnote 4 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
Kay Kohlmeyer, “The Temple of the Storm God in Aleppo During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages,” Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA) 72 (2009), pp. 190–202; Kay Kohlmeyer, Der Tempel des Wettergottes von Aleppo, Gerda Henkel Vorlesung (Münster: Rhema, 2000).
Endnote 3 - Solomon’s Temple in Context
I have other disagreements with elements of Monson’s comparisons, too detailed to consider here. Suffice it to say that although I do not deny certain striking similarities between the ‘Ain Dara temple and Solomon’s Temple, it seems to me that architecturally the Tell Tayinat temple remains the closer parallel; and this holds even if we accept some of Monson’s suggestions including some similarity between the corridor and the yāṣîa‘ and ṣelā‘ot.
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