Biblical Archaeology Review

Yadin, Bar-Kokhba, p. 155.

Yigael Yadin, Bar-Kokhba (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), p. 99.

Quoted in Neil Asher Silberman, A Prophet from Amongst You (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993), p. 252.

According to Halpern’s contribution to this report, the tablet was “found in the University of Chicago’s dump” (vol. 2, p. 550).

Halpern suggests that “the nadir of settlement at Megiddo in the EBII can be related to the general withdrawal of population in the region into fortresses, signalling the rise of hierarchical states” (vol. 2, p. 537). Well, maybe.

Baruch Halpern cites the extensive literature in his chapter in volume 2, footnote 55.

From the outset, the excavators were determined to “publish final reports on the results of the fieldwork following every two or three seasons of excavation … In order to facilitate prompt publication, the major seasons were designed to be carried out every second year, with the intervals devoted to laboratory work and composition of the report” (vol. 1, p. 3).

A regional survey was conducted in 1995, but it is not reported in this volume.

Adolfo Roitman, “The History, Architecture, and Symbolism of the Shrine of the Book,” Israel Museum Journal 15 (1997), p. 15. I have taken much of my description of the building from this article and from a personal tour by Dr. Roitman. I gratefully acknowledge the debt.