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Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth (Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1995).

Tina Niemi, Zvi Ben-Avraham and Joel R. Gat, eds., The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997).

David Neev and Kenneth O. Emery, “The Dead Sea: Depositional Processes and Environments of Evaporites,” State of Israel, Ministry of Development, Geological Survey, Bulletin 41 (Jerusalem, 1967); Amihai Sneh, “Late Pleistocene Fan-Deltas Along the Dead Sea Rift,” Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 49:2 (1979), pp. 541–552.

Ron W. Pritchett, “Recognizing Junk Science,” The Professional Geologist (December 1997), pp. 5–7.

This story is based largely on the report in the Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 16 (1936).

See, in addition to previously cited articles, Dina Shiloh, “Fierce Protest Over Bones Threatens to Halt Archaeology in Israel,” BAR 23:06.

See Gabriel Barkay, “Politics—Not Religious Law—Rules Ultra-Orthodox Demonstrators,” BAR 23:06.

Herbert Donner and W. Röllig, Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften (Wiesbaden, 1964), nos. 4, 6, 7.

Chadwick, “Potnia,” in Minos, vol. 5 (1957), pp. 122–123.