Footnote 1 - Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones
See “Monarchy at Work? The Evidence of Three Gates” sidebar to “Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers,” BAR 23:04.
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Endnote 4 - Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones
Josephus, Antiquities XI, 313.
Endnote 3 - Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones
Josephus, Antiquities XI, 306–311.
Endnote 2 - Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones
See Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), p. 95.
Endnote 1 - Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones
For more reading on the Samaritan temple on Mt. Gerizim and on the Samaritans, see Yitzhak Magen, The Samaritans and the Good Samaritan, Judea and Sumaria Publication (JSP) VII (Jerusalem: IAA, 2008) and Yitzhak Magen, Mount Gerizim Excavations II: A Temple City, JSP VIII (Jerusalem: IAA, 2008).
Footnote 2 - Where Is Biblical Debir?
Prior to Albright’s identification of Tell Beit Mirsim as Debir, earlier surveys, including the Palestine Exploration Fund’s Survey of Western Palestine, had identified a site named Dhaheriyeh as Debir. This proved to be impossible when excavations showed there was no occupation there during the pre-Israelite Canaanite period (the Late Bronze Age). However, this site, like Khirbet Rabud, is in the Judean hill country south of Hebron, rather than in the Shephelah, the location of Tell Beit Mirsim.
Footnote 1 - Where Is Biblical Debir?
Kochavi was by no means the first scholar to suggest that Debir is really Khirbet Rabud, but his excavations have significantly reinforced the argument. Martin Noth is perhaps the best-known scholar who previously suggested Rabud was Debir.
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