Biblical Archaeology Review

The use of such seals hung on a string is nicely described in Genesis 38:18.

See other examples in Ya’akov Meshorer, Ancient Jewish Coinage (New York: Amphora Books, 1982), pp. 109–113.

The Temple Mount Sifting Project is carried out under the academic auspices of the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. The initial funds were provided by the Heritage Foundation of Abraham and Frieda Wiener. Since 2005 the project has been funded by private donors through the Ir-David Foundation. The research on the finds is funded by private donors through the Israel Archaeology Foundation and the Israel Exploration Society. We are indebted to them all.

Lester L. Grabbe, “The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the Fall of Samaria: If We Had Only the Bible,” in Lester L. Grabbe, ed., Ahab Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of the Omri Dynasty, European Seminar in Historical Methodology 6, Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 421 (London/New York: T&T Clark, 2007), pp. 54–99.

Justin Lev-Tov, “A Plebeian Perspective on Empire Economies: Faunal Remains from Tel Miqne-Ekron, Israel,” in Douglas Campana, Alice Choyke, Pamela Crabtree, Susan D. Defrance and Justin Lev-Tov, eds., Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010), pp. 90–104.

Avraham Faust and Justin Lev-Tov, “The Constitution of Philistine Identity: Ethnic Dynamics in Twelfth to Tenth Century Philistia,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 30 (2011), pp. 13–31.

Meirav Meiri, Dorothée Huchon, Guy Bar-Oz, Elisabetta Boaretto, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Aren M. Maeir, Lidar Sapir-Hen, Greger Larson, Steve Weiner and Israel Finkelstein, “Ancient DNA and Population Turnover in Southern Levantine Pigs—Signature of the Sea Peoples Migration?” Scientific Reports (2013), pp. 1–8.

Avraham Faust and Justin Lev-Tov, “Philistia and the Philistines in the Iron Age I: Interaction, Ethnic Dynamics and Boundary Maintenance,” HIPHIL Novum 2 (2014), pp. 1–24.

See also Aren M. Maeir, Louise A. Hitchcock and Liora Kolska Horwitz, “On the Constitution and Transformation of Philistine Identity,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 32 (2013), pp. 1–38.

See full list of references and figures in Lidar Sapir-Hen, Guy Bar-Oz, Yuval Gadot and Israel Finkelstein, “Pig Husbandry in Iron Age Israel and Judah: New Insights Regarding the Origin of the ‘Taboo,’” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 129 (2013), pp. 1–20.