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See James A. Montgomery and Henry S. Gehman’s summary of the scholarly discussion on this subject in their Commentary on the Books of Kings (New York, 1951), pp. 363–364.

For a translation of the Assyrian record of the battle of Qarqar in which King Ahab of Israel participated, see James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, New Jersey, 1950), pp. 178–279.

Some commentators, however, consider Jehoshaphat’s name a later addition and believe that the king of Judah who participated in the Moabite campaign was Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram, a namesake, and also brother-in-law, of the king of Israel. See, for example, The Jerusalem Bible (New York, 1966), p. 457, note c.

For a fully documented history of the discovery of the Moabite Stone, see Siegfried H. Horn, “The Discovery of the Moabite Stone,” in Carol L. Meyers and M. O’Connor, eds., The Word of the Lord Shall Go Forth: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1983), pp. 497–505.

See also Corbo photographs No. 24, 25 and 204.

Conrad Schick, “Notes from Jerusalem,” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement, 1887, pp. 156–170.

See Magen Broshi, “Recent Excavations in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,” Qadmoniot, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1977, pp. 30ff (in Hebrew). More recently, see Magen Broshi and Gabriel Barkay, “Excavations in the Chapel of St. Vartan in the Holy Sepulchre,” Israel Exploration Journal 35, Nos. 1–3 (1985), pp. 108ff.

Quoted in Vincent, “Garden Tomb,” p. 422.