Biblical Archaeology Review

For a useful summary and analysis of the Biblical texts pertaining to the Philistines, see Peter Machinist, “Biblical Traditions: The Philistines and Israelite History,” in Eliezer D. Oren, ed., The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment (Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 2000), pp. 53–83.

For the full English translation of this section of the text (76.7-9), see John A. Wilson, “Egyptian Historical Texts,” in James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Third Edition with Supplement) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 262.

Jodi Magness, “The Chronology of the Settlement at Qumran in the Herodian Period,” DSD 2 (1995), pp. 58–65

Geza Vermes, Discoveries in the Judean Desert (New York: 1956), pp. 89–97; J. T. Milik, “Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea,” Studies in Biblical Theology 26 (London, 1959), pp. 74–87.

Time, August 6, 2001.

At Deir Aziz south of Hebron (see David Amit, “Yatta Survey,” Excavations and Surveys in Israel 9 [1989], pp. 165–166); at Horvat Bourgin in the Shephelah (the early Roman period burial cave at Horvat Bourgin will be published by Boaz Zissu in ‘Atiqot); and at Beth Shearim above catacombs 14 and 20 (see Nahman Avigad, Beth-She‘arim 3: Catacombs 12–23 [Report on the Excavations During 1953–1958] Jerusalem 1976).

Ehud Netzer, “Enclosure of Tomb H (Goliath’s Tomb) in Rachel Hachlili and Ann Killebrew, eds. Jericho: the Jewish Cemetery of the Second Temple Period, IAA Reports 7 (Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1999), pp. 45–50.

The grave was excavated on July 29, 2002 and reburied on the same day.