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See M. J. W. Leith, Wadi Daliyeh: The Wadi Daliyeh Seal Impressions, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 24 (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997).

Jonathan Goldstein (I Maccabees, Anchor Bible Series 41, [Doubleday, Garden City, NY: 1976], p. 170) dates this battle to September 145 B.C.E., though nothing in the text precludes a date of 144 or even early 143 B.C.E.

Josephus, Antiquities 13.154-62; War 2.459, 4.104).

Kedesh is cited twice in the Zenon papyri (P. Cairo Zen. I 59.004); see W.L. Westermann, C.W. Keyes and H. Liebesny, Zenon Papyri (New York: Columbia Univ. Press) vol. 2. Both texts apparently date to 259 B.C.E.

See Joshua 12:22, 19:37.

Ofer, “Hebron.” p. 609. Eisenberg and Alla Nagorski, “Tel Hevron,” Hadashot 114, p. 92.

Emanuel Eisenberg and Alla Nagorski, “Tel Hevron,” Hadashot 114, p. 92. The author expresses gratitude to Eisenberg for valuable advice and for sharing additional information about his finds at Hebron in advance of their publication.

New research on AEH finds from Iron Age I at Hebron was initiated by the author during the 2003–2004 appointment at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem and is tentatively scheduled to be delivered at the ASOR annual meeting in Philadelphia in November 2005.

Yuval Peleg and Irina Eisenstadt, “A Late Bronze Tomb at Hebron (Tell Rumeideh),” in Hananya Himzi and Alon DeGroot, eds., Burial Caves and Sites in Judea and Samaria From the Bronze and Iron Ages (Jerusalem: Staff Officer of Archaeology—Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria/Israel Antiquities Authority, 2004), pp. 231–259.

This scarab, designated in Hammond’s registry as AEH 66 No. 859, was drawn and photographed in 1966 but not read or otherwise identified by the expedition. It was first read and identified as a scarab of Ramesses II by the author in 1988, during examination of AEH finds in preparation for the writing of his Ph.D. dissertation, “The Archaeology of Biblical Hebron.”