Biblical Archaeology Review

J. Yohalom, “Piyyut as Poetry,” The Synagogue in Late Antiquity, ed. Lee I. Levine (Philadelphia: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1987), p. 119f.

Micheal L. Klein, Genizah Manuscripts of Palestinian Targum to the Pentateuch, 2 vols. (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1986), vol. 1, p. 192.

For the Avenches pavement, see Victorine von Gonzenbach, Die römischen Mosaiken der Schweiz (Basel: Birkhauser, 1961), p. 43ff.; for the Bingen pavement, see Klaus Parlasca, Die römischen Mosaiken in Deutschland (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1959), p. 86ff., no. 127; for the Sparta mosaic, see Archaeological Reports for 1983–84 30 (1984), p. 27.

See Elisha Qimron, “The Nature of the Reconstructed Composite Text of 4QMMT,” in John Kampen and Moshe Bernstein, eds, Reading 4QMMT: New Perspectives on Qumran Law and History, SBL Symposium series 2, (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996), pp. 9–13.

A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls, 4 vols. (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991–1996).

Florentino García Martínez, “Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Textes légaux (I),” Journal for the Study of Judaism, vol. 32, no. 1, (2001), pp. 71–89.

Øystein LaBianca and Randall Younker, “The Kingdoms of Ammon, Moab and Edom: The Archaeology of Society in Late Bronze/Iron Age Transjordan (Ca. 1400–500 B.C.E.),” in The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land, ed. Thomas E. Levy (New York: Facts on File, 1995), pp. 399–415.

For the upside-down V-shaped potter’s mark, see Adam Zertal, “An Early Iron Age Cultic Site on Mount Ebal: Excavation Season 1982–1987,” Tel Aviv 13–14 (1986–1987), fig. 19:11. For the crude seals with abstract designs, see B. Brandl, “Two Scarabs and a Trapezoidal Seal from Mount Ebal,” Tel Aviv 13–14 (1986–1987), fig. 1:2.

The evidence for the earthquake is very clear: collapsed slabs of bedrock and rapidly deposited fills in open fissures in the ground.