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See the important paper on this subject by Egyptologist James K. Hoffmeier, “Reconsidering Egypt’s Part in the Termination of the Middle Bronze Age in Palestine,” Levant, forthcoming.

This view was expressed in personal correspondence with the writer in March 1987.

Manfred Bierak, Avaris and Piramesse: Archaeological Exploration in the Eastern Nile Delta, in Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 65 (Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981), pp. 236–237.

It is generally agreed that the Hebrew text (three words) relating to “by the way-side waiting” is difficult to comprehend. I humbly believe that the translation here fits the context. It does not differ substantially from the New Jewish Publication Society translation (“waiting beside the road”).

I am most grateful to Dr. Ze’ev Yeivin for putting at my disposal large-scale maps of Wilson’s court.

Michael Avi-Yonah, s.v., Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 14, col. 1402.

Hans Kjaer, “Shiloh. A Summary Report of the Second Danish Expedition, 1929,” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement (1931), pp. 71–88.

Charles W. Wilson, “Jerusalem,” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement (London, 1873), p. 38.

Kaftor Waferach (translated Calyx and Petal—see Exodus 25:33) by Happatchi, completed in 1322. This is my translation of the Hebrew text as it appears on page 47 in the second printed edition of the book edited by Hirsch Edelmann (Berlin, 1852). As far as I know, there is no English translation of the book.

Jean Perrot, “Excavations at ‘Eynan (‘Ein Mallaha), Preliminary Report on the 1959 Season,” Israel Exploration Journal 10 (1960), pp. 14–22.