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Albrecht Alt, “Ägyptische Tempel in Palästina und die Landnahme der Philister,” in Kleine Schniten zur Geschichte des Volkes Israel I (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1953), pp. 227–228; cf. Martin Noth, The History of Israel (New York: Harper & Row, 2nd ed., 1960), p. 36.

William F. Albright, The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim in Palestine, vol. 1: The Pottery of the First Three Campaigns, Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) 12 (New Haven, CT: ASOR, 1932), p. 58.

Sandars, The Sea Peoples, p. 131.

John A. Wilson, “Egyptian Historical Texts,” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (ANET), ed. James B. Pritchard (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 3rd ed., 1969), p. 262, n. 6; Bietak, “Response to T. Dothan,” p. 217; Sandars, The Sea Peoples, p. 124.

Manfred Bietak, “Response to T. Dothan,” in Biblical Archaeology Today, ed. Janet Amitai (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1985), p. 217, N.K. Sandars, The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean 1250–1150 BC (London: Thames and Hudson, rev. ed., 1985), p. 120.

Throughout this article, I follow the chronology of Kenneth A. Kitchen in “The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relation to the Bronze Age” from High, Middle or Low? Acts of an International Colloquium on Absolute Chronology, Part I, ed. Paul Astrom (Gothenburg, Sweden: Paul Aströms Forlag, 1987), pp. 37–55.

Benjamin Mazar “The Philistines and the Rise of Israel and Tyre,” in The Israel Academy of Science and Humanity Proceedings 1/7 (1964) pp. 1–22.

Stieglitz, “Early Iron Age Geopolitics,” Archaeology 43, March/April 1990.

Avraham Biran, “The Collared-rim Jars and the Settlement of the Tribe of Dan,” Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research, 1989, 49:71–96.

Raban and Ehud Galili, IJNA 14 (1985) pp. 326–329.