Biblical Archaeology Review

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Endnote 5 - Ivory Pomegranate: Under the Microscope at the Israel Museum

Shmuel Ahituv, Aaron Demsky, Yuval Goren and André Lemaire, “The Inscribed Pomegranate from the Israel Museum Examined Again,” Israel Exploration Journal 57 (2007), pp. 87–95.

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Endnote 4 - Ivory Pomegranate: Under the Microscope at the Israel Museum

Yuval Goren, Shmuel Ahituv, Avner Ayalon, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Uzi Dahari, Michal Dayagi-Mendels, Aaron Demsky and Nadav Levin, “A Re-examination of the Inscribed Pomegranate from the Israel Museum,” Israel Exploration Journal 55 (2005), pp. 3–20.

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Endnote 3 - Ivory Pomegranate: Under the Microscope at the Israel Museum

Pieter W. van der Horst, Saxa Judaica Loquuntur: Lessons from Early Jewish Inscriptions, Biblical Interpretation Series 134 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 67–87.

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Endnote 2 - Ivory Pomegranate: Under the Microscope at the Israel Museum

Compare the remarks of Gaby Barkay at the conference I called to discuss the various allegations of forgeries, referred to below: “No committee and no court can establish the authenticity of an inscription. If a committee made up of the most important experts in the world decides that the earth is flat, it is not going to make the earth flat. So the decision of committees is neither originating in the Israeli law of antiquities, nor is it a procedure which is common in scholarly methods. Committees I think are good for communist regimes.

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Endnote 1 - Ivory Pomegranate: Under the Microscope at the Israel Museum

André Lemaire, “Une inscription paléo-hébraïque sur grenade en ivoire,” Revue Biblique 88 (1981), pp. 236–239.

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Endnote 4 - Israelite Footprints

For more detailed discussion of the meaning of the shape of these sites, see Ralph K. Hawkins, How Israel Became a People (Nashville: Abingdon, 2013), pp. 179–184.

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Endnote 3 - Israelite Footprints

A gilgal was the center of activity in Joshua 1–12. The allotments of several tribes, including those of Judah, Ephraim and Manasseh, were also made at a gilgal (Joshua 14:6), which appears to have been a site with cultic functions. The venue for the distribution of land shifts to Shiloh in Joshua 18:1.