Biblical Archaeology Review

Avraham Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance (London: Equinox, 2006); Israel Finkelstein, “Ethnicity and Origin of the Iron-I Settlers in the Highlands of Canaan—Can the Real Israel Stand Up?” Biblical Archaeologist 59 (1996), pp. 198–212; Lawrence E. Stager, “Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel,” in Michael D. Coogan, ed., The Oxford History of the Biblical World (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), pp. 123–175.

Brian Hesse, “Pig Lovers and Pig Haters: Patterns of Palestinian Pork Production,” Journal of Ethnobiology 10 (1990), pp. 195–225.

My research was funded by the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007–2013) ERC grant agreement no. 229418, awarded to Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University) and Steve Weiner (The Weizmann Institute of Science).

Rudolph Cohen and Yigal Yisrael, “The Iron Age Fortresses at En Haseva,” The Biblical Archaeologist 58 (1995), pp. 223–235; P.M. Michèle Daviau, “Diversity in the Cultic Setting: Temples and Shrines in Central Jordan and the Negev,” in Jens Kamlah, ed., Temple Building and Temple Cult: Architecture and Cultic Paraphernalia of Temples in the Levant (2.–1. Mill. B.C.E.), Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 41 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012), pp. 435–458 and plates 63–64.

Itzhaq Beit-Arieh and B. Cresson, “An Edomite Ostracon from Horvat ‘Uza,” Tel Aviv 12 (1985), pp. 96–100; Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, Horvat Qitmit: An Edomite Shrine in the Biblical Negev, Monograph Series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology 11 (Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology, 1995).

Vanderhooft, “The Edomite Dialect and Script,” p. 153.

Piotr Bienkowski, Crystal Bennett and Marta Balla, Busayra: Excavations by Crystal-M. Bennett 1971–1980, Monographs in Archaeology 13 (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002).