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William G. Dever, “Excavations at Shechem and Mt. Gerizim,” Eretz Shomron. The Thirtieth Archaeological Convention, September, 1972 (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1973), pp. 8–9 (Hebrew).

Zvi Gal, Lower Galilee During the Iron Age, trans. M. R. Josephy (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1992), p. 109.

Annals 18 and 24, in Hallo and Younger, Context of Scripture, vol. 2, p. 286.

Summary Inscription 4:6’-8a’, 15’b-19’a, in Hallo and Younger, Context of Scripture, vol. 2, p. 288.

Since these passages are late, a question has been raised as to how reliable they are. See H.G.M. Williamson, 1 and 2 Chronicles (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1982), p. 67.

William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., eds., Context of Scripture (Leiden: Brill, 1997–2002), vol. 2, p. 286.

H.J. Bruins, J. van der Plicht and A. Mazar, “14C Dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age Chronology, Pharaohs, and Hebrew Kings,” Science 300 (2003), pp. 317–318.

Finkelstein argues that similar-looking pottery from the enclosure at Tel Jezreel, which is dated to the ninth century B.C.E., should also be used to date Megiddo Stratum VA/IVB to the ninth century. Despite this similarity, however, the presence of additional vessel types in the Jezreel assemblage that occur elsewhere in stratigraphically later Iron Age contexts place this assemblage later in the Iron Age II sequence.