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David Flusser, “Paganism in Palestine,” in Compendia Rerum Judaicarum ad Novum Testamentum I.2, ed. S. Safrai and M. Stern (Arsen, 1976), p. 1097.

Michael Avi-Yonah, The Jews of Palestine (Oxford, 1976), p. 37.

Encylopaedia Judaica, vol. 10, s.v. “Jewish Identity,” p. 55.

K. G. Kuhn and H. Stegemann, “Proselytes,” in Pauly-Wissowa, Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1893– ), suppl. ix (1962), p. 1260, cf. pp. 1248–1283.

Incidentally, the scale on the Giloh plan should be 10 meters, not 100 meters as shown.

Zertal’s reference to Benjamin Mazar’s paper is very strange. Mazar refers to a hypothetical enclosure at the foot of Mt. Ebal, not on it, just outside the city walls of Tell Balata (ancient Shechem). Anyone who reads Mazar’s paper would certainly not get the impression that he believes that an altar was built on Mr. Ebal. Being very cautious, Mazar speaks about “old traditions” of a cult place in Shechem.

Shmueli, Nomadism About to Cease, pp. 83, 107, 154–155; Motoko Katakura, Bedouin Village (Tokyo, 1977), p. 73; Shirley Kay, The Bedouin (New York, 1978), p. 143.

Cf. photographs in Alois Musil, Arabia Petraea III (Vienna, 1908), p. 131, Gustaf Hermann Dalman, Arabat und Sitte in Palastina VI (Gutersloh, 1939), p. 12, and description by Claude R. Conder, Tent Works in Palestine (London, 1889), p. 275.

Moshe Kochavi, “Rescue in the Biblical Negev,” BAR 06:01.