Biblical Archaeology Review

See “Cherub,” Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 5, col. 397.

Compare William G. Dever, “Archaeological Data on the Israelite Settlement: A Review of Two Recent Works,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 248 (1991), pp. 77–90; and Gloria A. London, “A Comparison of Two Contemporaneous Lifestyles of the Late Second Millennium B.C.E.,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 273 (1989), pp. 37–55.

See Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na’aman, eds., From Nomadism to Monarchy. Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994), especially Finkelstein’s contribution, pp. 150–178; compare my critique, “The ‘Nomadic’ Origins of Earliest Israel: Can Archaeology Separate Fact from Fiction,” in Mediterranean Peoples in Transition: Thirteenth to Early Tenth Centuries B.C.E., ed. Laurence Silberman (New York: New York Univ., forthcoming in 1996).

See Thomas E. Levy, “Craft Specialization First Begins in the Chalcolithic Period,” BAR 16:06; Levy, ed., The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land (New York: Facts-on-File, 1995).

Claire Epstein and Tamar Noy, “Observations Concerning Perforated Flint Tools from Chalcolithic Palestine,” Paleorient 14 (1988), pp. 138–141.

A similar interpretation was suggested for the nose indicated on several metal items found in the Cave of the Treasure; see Pesach Bar-Adon, The Cave of the Treasure (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1980), p. 132.

Rivkah Gonen, “The Chalcolithic Period,” in Amnon Ben-Tor, ed., The Archaeology of Ancient Israel (Tel-Aviv: The Open University, 1992), p. 74.

Epstein, “Basalt Pillar Figures from the Golan,” Israel Exploration Journal 25 (1975), pp. 193–201; Epstein, “Basalt Pillar Figures from the Golan and the Huleh Region,” Israel Exploration Journal 38 (1993), pp. 205–223.

Epstein, “Oil Production in the Golan Heights During the Chalcolithic Period,” Tel Aviv 20 (1993), pp. 133–146.

Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf, Domestication of Plants in the Old World, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).