Biblical Archaeology Review

Steiner, “Redating,” p. 18.

Collared-rim storage jars were once deemed to be the “fossile directeur for both the Iron I period and the Israelite presence within it. It has recently been shown, however, that the type begins to appear in LB II and is found also outside the Israelite sphere in Iron I. Thus, its significance lies not in its mere appearance, but rather in its relative frequency in the assemblage” (Raphael Greenberg, “New Light of the Early Iron Age at Tell Beit Mirsim,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 265 [1987], p. 71).

Piotr Bienkowski, “The Beginning of the Iron Age in Edom,” Levant 24 (1992), pp. 167–169; and Finkelstein, “Stratigraphy, Pottery, and Parallels,” Levant 24 (1992), pp. 171–172.

Israel Finkelstein, “The Archaeology of the United Monarchy,” Levant 28 (1996), p. 182.

Steiner’s assertion that the terraces were bounded by a solid stone wall about 65 feet high is a mistake; the wall (Wall 70) is no more than 6.5 feet high (Steiner, “Redating,” p. 15, fig. 2).

Although Steiner states that Kenyon found a complete jar, the published drawing depicts only a complete jar rim (Steiner, “Redating,” p. 18, fig. 6).

Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem, p. 92 (Site P); “Excavations in Jerusalem, 1962,” PEQ 95 (1963), p. 17.

Shiloh, “Jerusalem,” p. 129; Shiloh, City of David, pp. 4, 7, 12, 26.