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See the discussion of Carey A. Moore, Judith, Anchor Bible (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985), pp. 167–168. Moore accepts Simeon’s ancient location near Shechem.

Benjamin Mazar, Encyclopedia Migrai 2 (Bezek, 1954), p. 45; Yohanan Aharoni, The Land of the Bible (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979), p. 214.

Just as one example, see Samuel Rolles Driver, An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (New York: Meridian Books, 1956), p. 162.

Type C is found in Megiddo, stratum VA; Taanach, stratum IIA; and others.

For example, Type B is found at Hazor, stratum XII; Taanach, stratum IB, and Beth Shemesh, Giloh and many other sites; Type B is the principal form found in stratum IB, dated to the 12th century, on Mt. Ebal.

For example, Type A is found at Megiddo (where it is called type 15), strata IX–VIII; Hazor, stratum XIII; Lachish, strata VIII–VI; ‘Afula, stratum IIIB; Mevorakh, stratum II; Taanach, stratum IA.

Albrecht Alt, Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte des Volkes Israels I (Stuttgart, 1953), vol. 1, pp. 131ff, esp. p. 176.

Julius Wellhausen, Prolagomena (Berlin, 1901), p. 452.

See Baruch Brandl, “Two Scarabs and a Trapezoidal Seal from Mount Ebal,” Tel Aviv 13–14 (1986–1987), pp. 166–173.

Haim Gevariyahu, “Gilgal,” in Encyclopedia Migra’it (Biblical Encyclopedia) (Jerusalem: Bialek Institute, 1973), vol. 2, pp. 487–490 (in Hebrew).