Biblical Archaeology Review

The excavations at Tel Rehov have been conducted since 1997, under the direction of Amihai Mazar on behalf of the Institute of Archaeology of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with the generous support of Mr. John Camp. Area C, where most of the finds described in this article were found, is supervised by Nava Panitz-Cohen. See A. Mazar, “The 1997–1998 Excavations at Tel Rehov: Preliminary Report,” Israel Exploration Journal 49 (1999), pp. 1–42. This and other publications of the finds from Tel Rehov can be found at www.rehov.org.

Benjamin Mazar, “The Exodus and Conquest of Israel,” Canaan and Israel (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1974), p. 100 (Hebrew).

Pritchard, ANET, p. 259.

James Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (ANET) (Prince­ton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1950), p. 259.

Bruce M. Metzger et al., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, Second Edition (New York: United Bible Societies, 1998), p. 188.

See January/February 2005. The conference has now been published as Liverani 2005.

Yizhar Hirschfeld, “A Settlement of Hermits Above ‘Ein Gedi,” Tel Aviv 27 (2000), pp. 103–155. See also Hershel Shanks, “Searching for Essenes at Ein Gedi, Not Qumran,” BAR, July/August 2002.

Yizhar Hirschfeld, ed., Ein Gedi: “A Very Large Village of Jews” (Haifa: Hecht Museum, University of Haifa, 2006).

On the “persistence of Gnosticism,” see the Epilogue to my work Ancient Gnosticism, pp. 331–341.