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See Shmuel Yeivin and Aharon Kempinski, “Erani, Tel,” NEAEHL, vol. 2, pp. 417–422. When Tel Erani was still a viable candidate, it was renamed Tel Gat, and the modern Israeli town nearby Qiryat Gat (the “Town of Gath”).

For a review of the literature, see William F. Stinespring, “Gath,” Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 2, pp. 355–356; Joe D. Seger, “Gath,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 2, pp. 908–909; Schniedewind, “Geopolitical History,” pp. 69–79, esp. 69; Ephraim Stern, “Zafit, Tel,” NEAEHL, vol. 4, pp. 1522–1524.

Maeir directs the excavation, assisted since 1999 by Carl S. Ehrlich of York University in Toronto.

See Adrian J. Boas and Aren M. Maeir, “The Renewed Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath,” in Oren Ackermann, ed., The Judean Shephelah—Man, Nature and Landscape: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies, May 19th 1998 (Hebrew; Ramat Gan: La-student, 1998), pp. 33–39; and Boas, Maeir and Tami Schneider, “Tel Zafit,” Excavations and Surveys in Israel, vol. 20 (1998), pp. 114*–115* (Hebrew Section).

T. Ornan, A Man and His Country: The Dayan Collection Catalogue (Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1986).

Yohanan Aharoni and Ruth Amiran, “A Survey of the Shephelah Tells,” Yediot, vol. 19 (1955), pp. 222–225 (Hebrew); M. Israel, “Survey and Study of the Kfar Menahem Region,” Teva va-Aretz 5/5 (1963), pp. 2–4 (Hebrew).

See David A. Dorsey, The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 189–191.

Schniedewind, “Geopolitical History,” p. 70.

See Frederick Jones Bliss and R. A. Stewart Macalister, Excavations in Palestine during the Years 1898–1900 (London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1902), pp. 28–43, 63–66.