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See Alan H. Gardiner, The Royal Canon of Turin (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1959).

Richard A. Baty, “Subsurface Interface Radar at Sepphoris, Israel, 1985,” Journal of Field Archaeology 14 (Spring 1987), pp 1–8.

See Sauer, “Transjordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages,” p. 10.

Israel Finkelstein has demonstrated this in his 1983 dissertation at the University of Tel Aviv, The ‘Isbet Sartah Excavations and the Israelite Settlement in the Hill Country, an English translation of which is forthcoming from the Israel Exploration Society.

See James A. Sauer, “Trans-Jordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages: A Critique of Glueck’s Synthesis,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 263 (1986), p. 9.

And reshuffling Egyptian chronology would create tension with the chronology of Alalakh itself linked, through that of the First Dynasty of Babylon, with astronomically determined dates.

See Aharon Kempinski, Syrien und Palästina (Kanaan) in der letzten Phase der Mittelbronze IIB-Zeit (1650–1570 v. Chr.) (Agypten und altes Testament 4; Wiesbaden, West Germany: Harrassowitz, 1983), pp. 131–148; Rivka Gonen, Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronte Age Canaan, forthcoming in the American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series.

See James Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969), pp. 235–238.