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Jamieson-Drake, Scribes and Schools, pp. 140–145.

See Ofer, “Hill Country.”

Jamieson-Drake, Scribes and Schools, pp. 138–145. The chiefdom has been identified as an important stage in the development from a tribal society (sometimes called “segmentary society”) to a full-blown state. States are characterized by a greater number of institutions, a larger population, a more complex agricultural system, craft specialization, a defensive organization and a highly diversified administrative apparatus to coordinate social, religious and economic activity.

See E.A. Knauf, “King Solomon’s Copper Supply,” in Phoenicia and the Bible, ed. E. Lipinski (Leuven: Peeters, 1991), pp. 171–172, and “From History to Interpretation,” in The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel’s Past, ed. D.V. Edelman (Sheffield, UK: Sheffied Academic Press, 1991), p. 39. See also Lemche, “Is It Still Possible to Write a History of Israel?” pp. 184–185; and Thompson, Early History, pp. 409–411.

Jamieson-Drake, Scribes and Schools.

D.W. Jamieson-Drake, Scribes and Schools in Monarchic Israel: A Socio-archaeological Approach (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991).

Thompson, Early History, p. 331.

Thompson, Early History, p. 331.

Na’aman, “Beth-David in the Aramaic Stela from Tel Dan,” Biblische Notizen 79 (1995), pp. 17–24.