Biblical Archaeology Review

When I arrived in Paris, I tried to look up Milik’s name in the Parisian telephone directory, but could not find it. A French Jesuit at the residence where I was staying in Paris helped me to search out his number on the electronic, computerized telephone directory. The name Milik did not appear there either. I suggested that we try to search according to the address, and, sure enough, we discovered the problem Milik’s name was misspelled. It appears as “Milir, Joseph,” at the specified address, and the number Shanks had given me was correct.

In J.A. Sanders, ed., Near Eastern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century: Essays in Honor of Nelson Glueck (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), pp. 64–80. See also, significantly, G. Ernest Wright, “What Archaeology Can and Cannot Do,” Biblical Archaeologist (BA) 34 (1971), pp. 70–76, and “The ‘New Archaeology’,” BA 38 (1975), pp. 104–117.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961; French original 1958–1960.

G. Ernest Wright, God Who Acts: Biblical Theology as Recital (London: SCM, 1952).

The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988).

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1979.

See my forthcoming treatment in the Frank Moore Cross Festschrift for details.

See Robert A. Oden, Jr., “The Persistence of Canaanite Religion,” BA 39 (1976), pp. 31–36.

On ancient Israelite festivals, see Hans Joachim Kraus, Worship in Israel: A Cultic History of the Old Testament (Richmond, VA: John Knox, 1966), pp. 26–92; also Roland de Vaux, Ancient Israel, Its Life and Institutions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961), pp. 481–517.

Norman K. Gottwald, The Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250–1050 B.C.E. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1979), p. xxv.