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For the Papyrus Anastasi VI, see J.B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, (3rd. ed.) (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), p. 259. This is the same pharaoh associated with the famous Merneptah or Israel Stele (See H. Shanks, W.G. Dever, B. Halpern and P.K. McCarter, Jr., The Rise of Ancient Israel [Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992]).
R. Grafman, “Nehemiah’s ‘Broad Wall,’” Israel Exploration Journal 24 (1974): 50–52; Nahman Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1983), pp. 56–60. On the idea that the name Sha’ar Hayeshanah (“Old Gate”) is a distortion of the original name Sha’ar HaMishneh (“Secondary Gate”), see B. Mazar, “Jerusalem from Isaiah to Jeremiah,” in B. Mazar, ed., Biblical Israel, State and People (Jerusalem, 1992), p. 103.
A fuller version of this article appeared as “Historiographic Reflections on Israel’s Origins: The Rise and Fall of the Patriarchal Age,” in Hayim and Miriam Tadmor Volume (=Eretz Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies, Vol. 27), ed. Israel Eph‘al., Amnon Ben-Tor and Peter Machinist (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, etc., 2003), pp. 120–128.
