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On this name and that of Debir, see Hess, “Non-Israelite Personal Names in the Book of Joshua,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58 (1996) p. 208, and further bibliography there.

See Richard S. Hess, “Israelite Identity and Personal Names from the Book of Judges,” Hebrew Studies 44 (2003), pp. 25–39. Also see Hess, “Getting Personal: What Names in the Bible Teach Us,” Bible Review, December 1997.

M. Chisholm, Rural Settlement and Land Use, An Essay in Location (London: Hutchinson, 1968).

D.J. Wiseman, Chronicles of Chaldaean Kings (626–556 B.C.) (London: British Museum, 1956), pp. 68, 85.

Despite the fact that Jerusalem greatly expanded beyond the City of David in the latter part of Iron Age II, Iron Age II remains comparable to those found on the City of David’s eastern slope have not been preserved anywhere else in Jerusalem because all the other areas of the city experienced—and continue to experience—intense occupation in subsequent periods.

Kathleen Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem (New York: Praeger, 1974), p. 94.

Yigal Shiloh, Excavations at the City of David, vol. 1 (Qedem 19), p. 25.

Donald T. Ariel, ed., Excavations at the City of David.

Donald T. Ariel and Yeshayahu Lender, “Area B: Stratigraphic Report,” in Ariel, ed., Excavations at the City of David 1978–1985 Directed by Yigal Shiloh Volume V: Extramural Areas (Qedem 40) (Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology and Israel Exploration Society, 2000), pp. 1–32, esp. 4–7.