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Dothan and Gitin, “Notes and News: Tel Miqne (Ekron), 1982,” Israel Exploration Journal 33 (1983), p. 127.

Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin, “Notes and News: Tel Miqne (Ekron), 1981,” Israel Exploration Journal 32 (1982), pp. 150–153.

In my view many issues, crucial for understanding the history of Ekron as well as wider issues, should be interpreted in a way radically different from that of the excavators. See my detailed critical study: “The Fortifications of Philistine Ekron,” Israel Exploration Journal 55 (2005), pp. 35–65.

The lamed preceding Ashera in the text (meaning to, for or as) is pointed with an a, thus la’ashera, making it impossible to decide if it means “to/for/as ‘asherah” or “to/for/as the Asherah.”

The essential information on the conservation work by EDF is published in the following essay in English: R. Bertholon, N. Lacoudre and J. Vasquez, “The Conservation and Restoration of the Copper Scroll from Qumran,” in G.J. Brooke and P.R. Davies, eds., Copper Scroll Studies (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 40; London/New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002; reprinted in paperback by T & T Clark International, 2004), pp. 12–24.

John Marco Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970), pp. 192–194, in Brown, p. 199.

Letter from J.M. Allegro to Hodder and Stoughton, October 23, 1968, in Brown. p. 186.

The London Times, March 16, 1956 in Brown, p. 92.

J.M. Allegro, Broadcast Talk for BBC Northern Home Service, January 23, 1956, in Judith Anne Brown, John Marco Allegro: The Maverick of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 2005), p. 77.

Antiquities of the Jews, XV.366 (Loeb ed.).