Biblical Archaeology Review

Palestinian Talmud, Pesahim 1, 27a.

For Josephus’ description of the royal palace, the stadium, and the synagogue, see Vita 12(65–7); The Jewish War 2, 211, 6(618); Vita 54(277), respectively. For a summary of the city’s history during its first century, see Emil Schurer, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.–A.D. 135), vol. 2, ed., Geza Vetmes and F. Miller (Edinburgh, rev. ed. 1979), pp. 178–182.

Avraham Biran, “The Collared-rim Jars and the Settlement of the Tribe of Dan,” in Gitin and Dever, Recent Excavation, pp. 71–96.

Moshe Dothan, “Archaeological Evidence for Movements” and his “Sardine at Akko?” in Studies in Sardinian Archaeology: Sardinia in the Mediterranean, vol. 2, ed. Miriam Balmuth (Ann Arbor: Univ. Of Michigan Press, 1986), pp. 105–115.

Othniel Margalith, “Samson’s Riddle and Samson’s Magic Locks,” Vetus Testamentum (VT), 36 (1986), pp. 225–234.

See citations and discussion in George Foote Moore, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges (International Critical Commentary) (New York: Scribner’s, 1895), pp. 364–365.

Amihai Mazar, Excavations at Tell Qasile: Part One, The Philistine Sanctuary: Architecture and Cult Objects, Qedem 12 (Jerusalem: Hebrew Univ. Press, 1980).

Richard D. Barnett, “The Sea Peoples,” CAH, vol. II. part 2, pp. 363–365, and “Phrygia and the Peoples of Anatolia in the Iron Age,” CAH, vol. II, part 2, pp. 441–442.