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Emanuel LeRoy Ladurie, Love, Death, and Money in the Pays D’Oc (New York: George Braziller, 1982).

N. Wachtel, The Vision of the Vanquished. The Spanish Conquest of Peru through Indian Eyes 1530–1570 (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1977).

Northrop Frye, The Great Code (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1982).

Gottwald, The Tribes of Yahweh, pp. 465–473.

G. Ernest Wright, “Archeology and Old Testament Studies,” Journal of Biblical Literature 77 (1958) p. 44.

Fernand Braudel, On History (Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 74.

See the debate between Yigael Yadin (Hazor: The Head of All Those Kingdoms [London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1972]) and Yohanan Aharoni (“New Aspects of the Israelite Occupation in the North,” in Near Eastern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century [New York: Doubleday, 1970], pp. 254–267) concerning the destruction of Hazor where precisely the same evidence is used to support opposed theories.

The literature on this is vast. For the latest statement of the problem, see Salo Baron, The Contemporary Relevance of History. A Study in Approaches and Methods (New York: Columbia University, 1986), p. 43.

M. B. Rowton, “Autonomy and Nomadism in Western Asia,” Orientalia 42 (1973), pp. 247–258, and “Urban Autonomy in a Nomadic Environment,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 32 (1973), pp. 201–215; for a general discussion of anthropology and Biblical studies, see John W. Rogerson, Anthropology and the Old Testament (Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, 1978).