Biblical Archaeology Review

“A Comedy or a Tragedy?” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1984.

André Dupont-Sommer, Les écrits esséniens découverts près de la Mer Morte (Paris: Payot, 1959), p. 386. English title The Essene Writings from Qumran (Oxford: Blackwell, 1961), p. 373.

“Final Reports on Israeli Excavations,” forthcoming in Eretz Israel 25 (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society).

“The Bible and Israeli Archaeology,” in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation, ed. Leo G. Perdue et al. (Atlanta: John Knox, 1987), p. 38.

Palestine Exploration Quarterly, January–June 1994, p. 72.

Yohanan Aharoni doubted the existence of Harosheth: “It appears likely that Harosheth-ha-goiim is not a place name at all but refers rather to the forested regions of Galilee … ” See also Aharoni and Michael Avi-Yonah, The Macmillan Bible Atlas, eds. Anson F. Rainey and Z. Safrai. (New York: Macmillan, 3rd ed., 1993), p. 54: “There is no city by the name of Harosheth-hagoiim in any extra-biblical source … Harosheth means ‘cultivated land’ and refers to the rich farm area on the southern side of the Jezreel Valley.”

Wayne Horowitz and Aaron Shaffer, “A Fragment of a Letter from Hazor,” Israel Exploration Journal 42, pp. 165–167.

The name Qishon is written with a final-r; this is a known spelling convention in the transliteration of Semitic names in Egyptian. For example, the name Beth-shan is always written in Egyptian with final -r, as is also the city-name Gitt-ashn(a) in the time of Ramesses II.

G.F. Moore, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges (New York: 1901), p. 109.