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William G. Dever, “Israel, History (of Archaeology and the ‘Conquest’)” in Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), III, pp. 547–548.

Ahlström, Ancient Palestine, p. 416.

Gösta Ahlström, The History of Ancient Palestine (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Press, 1993), p. 45.

Arnaldo Momigliano, “Biblical Studies and Classical Studies: Simple Reflections about Historical Method,” Biblical Archaeologist 45 (1982), p. 224.

Thomas L. Thompson, The Origin Tradition of Ancient Israel (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Press, 1987), p. 41.

Robert B. Coote, Early Israel: A New Horizon (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1990), p. 141.

Translated by R. Hackforth, Plato’s Phaedrus (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1952), p. 78.

For the following discussion, complete references and documentation will be found in my article “Mithras and the Hypercosmic Sun,” in John Hinnells, ed., Studies on Mithraism (Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, forthcoming).

Although the usual symbol for Aquarius in antiquity was a man carrying a vessel, it was sometimes symbolized by the vessel alone; for a convenient example see the Roman engraved gem illustrated in E.R. Goodenough, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, edited and abridged by Jacob Neusner (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1988), fig. 17.