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Compare Jeremiah 44:1–14 with II Kings 25:22–24.

See, for example, Thompson, Mythic Past, p. 79; Lemche, The Israelites, pp. 35–38.

See now the exhaustive treatment of Michael G. Hasel, Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant, 1300–1185 B.C. (Leiden: Brill, 1998).

Siân Jones, The Archaeology of Ethnicity (London: Routledge, 1997).

See, for example, Dever, “Archaeology, Ideology, and the Quest.”

On literacy in general in Ancient Israel, see Susan Niditch, Oral Word and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1996).

For an interpretation of Israelite popular religion, in terms of continuity with the Canaanite cult, see Dever, “Folk Religion in Early Israel—Did Yahweh Have a Consort?” in Hershel Shanks and Jack Meinhardt, eds., Aspects of Monotheism—How God Is One (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1997), pp. 27–56.

Amihai Mazar, “The ‘Bull Site’: An Iron Age Open Cult Place,” BASOR 247 (1982), pp. 27–42; Adam Zertal, “An Early Iron Age Cult Site on Mt. Ebal: Excavation Seasons 1982–1987,” Tel Aviv 13–14 (1986–1987), pp. 105–165.