Biblical Archaeology Review

This article has been adapted from my paper, “Introduction to the Study of the History of the Religion of Israel,” in John Kaltner and Louis Stulman, eds., Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient near East, Essays in Honour of Herbert B. Huffmon (JSOT SS 378 London and New York: T&T Clark International, 2004), pp. 8–11. It is published here with the permission of the editors and T&T Clark.

Ivan Engnell, A Rigid Scrutiny: Critical Essays on the Old Testament, trans. and ed., John T. Willis, with the collaboration of Helmer Ringgren (Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1969), p. 35.

For more information on the Israelite house, see Oded Borowski Daily Life in Biblical Times (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003), pp. 16–21.

Before its allocation to Judah, it may have been part of the tribe of Simeon. See Joshua 19:7 and 1 Chronicles 4:32. A reference to En-rimmon (En=spring) in Nehemiah 11:29 may also be the same site.

Yohanan Aharoni, The Land of the Bible (revised and enlarged edition, edited by A.F. Rainey) (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979), p. 44.

James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Related to the Old Testament (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), p. 288.

Speiser, “Gilgamesh,” p. 67. See also John Gardner, and John Maier, Gilgamesh (New York: Knopf, 1984), p. 231.

J. H. A. Jewell, Dhows at Mombasa (Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1969), p. 13.