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Louis-Hugues Vincent and Felix-Marie Abel, Jérusalem nouvelle, vol. 2 (Paris: Gabalda, 1926), pp. 774–775, pl. 79:8. This stone slab was published earlier by Lagrange (Saint Étienne, p. 136).

The Dominican fathers of the École Biblique entrusted me with the publication of these vessels. I would like to thank Père Jean-Baptiste Humbert for his kind assistance.

James, Beth-Shean, p. 8.

Frances James, The Iron Age at Beth-Shean, (Philadelphia: Univ. Museum, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966), p. 8, figs. 98:3, 99:2; see also Appendix D, by William A. Ward, “The Egyptian Inscriptions of Level VI,” p. 174 (inscription no. F-2).

Marie-Joseph Lagrange, Saint Étienne et son sanctuaire à Jérusalem (Paris, 1894).

The gates were engaged in a wall that encircled the Temple precincts. Ezekiel 42:7 refers to it as gaµdeµr, the same word that is used for a wall that encloses gardens and vineyards. Ezekiel 42:12 uses gdrt gynlr; see also Cross, From Epic to Canon (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998), p. 169, n. 67.

For a more detailed discussion of the festival, see Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1973), pp. 91–111.

J.C. Greenfield, “Ba‘al’s Throne and Isa. 6:1” in Mélanges bibliques et orientaux en l’honneur de M. Mathias Delcor, ed. A Caquot, S. Légasse and M. Tardieu, Alter Orient und Altes Testament (1985), pp. 193–198; see also M.S. Smith, “Divine Form and Size in Ugaritic and Pre-exilic Israelite Religion,” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 100 (1988), pp. 424–427.

A. Abu Assaf, Der Tempel von ‘Ain Dara, Damaszener Forschungen 3 (Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1990); see also “Der Tempel von ‘Ain Daµraµ in Nordsyrien,” Antike Welt 24 (1993), pp. 151–171.