Biblical Archaeology Review

For more information on Shiloh, see the two-part interview in BAR: Hershel Shanks, “Yigal Shiloh—Last Thoughts,” BAR 14:02 and “BAR Interview: Yigal Shiloh,” BAR 14:03.

For a more detailed description of the Babylonian invasion of southern Palestine, see Lawrence E. Stager, “The Fury of Babylon: Ashkelon and the Archaeology of Destruction,” BAR 22:01.

David Ussishkin, “Excavations at Lachish, Tel Aviv 5 (1978), pp. 83–84, fig. 26, pl. 27.

Lawrence also uses quotations from Matthew 5:39, about turning the other cheek, and 6:24, “service to two masters irked me,” referring to his role with the British and Arabs. See Jeffrey Meyers, The Wounded Spirit: A Study of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” (London: Martin Brian & O’Keeffe, 1973), p. 148, for an appendix listing 17 Biblical allusions in this masterpiece.

Nelson Glueck, Rivers in the Desert (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1959), p. 12.

My translation of Arthur Segal, Shivta: Portrait of a Byzantine City in the Negev Desert (in Hebrew), in Shivta 9 (Haifa: University of Haifa Press, 1986).

Woolley, “The Desert of the Wanderings,” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement (1914), pp. 65–66.

Woolley and Lawrence, The Wilderness of Zin (London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1915).

Woolley, As I Seem to Remember (London: Allen and Unwin, 1962), p. 93.

See Neil Asher Silberman, Digging for God and Country: Exploration, Archaeology, and the Secret Struggle for the Holy Land, 1799–1917 (New York: Knopf, 1982), pp. 119–123.