Biblical Archaeology Review

This designation comes from A. Jepsen, “Untersuchungen zum Bundesbuch” (BWANT, III 5, (Stuttgart, 1927)), 87–90.

J. van der Ploeg, “Les chefs du peuple d’Israel et leurs titres”, RB 57 (1950), 40–61, spec. 47–54; E. A. Speiser “Background and Function of the Biblical Nasi”, CBQ 25 (1963), 111–17, reproduced in his Oriental and Biblical Studies (Philadelphia, 1967), 113–22.

M. Noth, Das System …, 151–62; The History …, 98; J. Bright, A History of Israel, 144.

The mention of Shiloh in Judges 21:12 is a gloss from the same period.

W. F. Albright, Archaeology and the Religion of Israel (Baltimore, 1946), 103–05; Id., Archaeology, Historical Analogy and Early Biblical Tradition (Baton Rouge, 1966), 55–56; E. Nielsen, Shechem. A Traditio-Historical Investigation (Copenhagen, 1955) 36, n.i.: M. H. Woudstra. The Ark of the Covenant from Conquest to Kingship (Philadelphia, 1965), 126–28 and 133.

The name itself appears only twice, in the introductions (Judges 2:1 and 3:19) and only as a geographical landmark.

M. Noth, The History …, 95.

J. A. Soggin, “Zwei umstrittene Stellen aus dem Uberlieferungskreis Shechem”, in ZAW 73 (1961), 78–87.

M. Noth, The History …, 94–95, inspired by A. Alt, “Die Wallfahrt von Sichem nach Bethel”, in In piam memoriam Alexander von Bulmerincq (Riga, 1938), 218–30 = Kleine Schriften, I, 79–88.