Biblical Archaeology Review

Nahman Avigad, Hebrew Bullae from the Time of Jeremiah: Remnants of a Burnt Archive, (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1986).

Deutsch, Messages from the Past (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 1997).

Deutsch, Messages from the Past, pp. 22–23.

Andrew G. Vaughn, Theology, History, and Archaeology in the Chronicler’s Account of Hezekiah (Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1999), pp. 199–216, XXIIe and XXIIIa.

Frank Moore Cross’s assumption that the “scarab and the sun-disk imparts a religious significance” in Judah, as also Meir Lubetski’s assumption that the “Judean king gazed aloft to the God in heaven for deliverance,” are mere speculations.

Avigad and Sass, West Semitic Stamp Seals, nos. 728, 733, 735, 743, 749.

Nahman Avigad, revised and completed by Benjamin Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Israel Exploration Society, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997), no. 3; Robert Deutsch and André Lemaire, Biblical Period Personal Seals in the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, (Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 2000), nos. 13 and 14.

Richard David Barnett, Ancient Ivories in the Middle East, (Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, 1982), p. 49, plates 48–49.

Trude Dothan, The Philistines and Their Material Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), pp. 252–288, especially 256, 277, 278.