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———. 2000. Assyrian Deportations to the Province of Samaria in the Light of the Two Cuneiform Tablets from Tel Hadid.
Tel Aviv
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The cult reform of Hezekiah

ACCEPTING ITS HISTORICITY

Haran, M. 1978.
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Lowery, R. H. 1991.
The Reforming Kings: Cults and Society in First Temple Judah.
Sheffield.

McKay, J. 1973.
Religion in Judah Under the Assyrians.
Naperville.

Weinfeld, M. 1964. Cult Centralization in Israel in the Light of a Neo-Babylonian Analogy.
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REJECTING ITS HISTORICITY

Fried, L. 2002. The High Places (Bamôt) and the Reforms of Hezekiah and Josiah: An Archaeological Investigation.
Journal of the American Oriental Society
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Handy, L. 1988. Hezekiah’s Unlikely Reform.
Zeitschrift für die altestamentliche Wissenschaft
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Na’aman, N. 1995. The Debated Historicity of Hezekiah’s Reform in the Light of Historical and Archaeological Research.
Zeitschrift für die altestamentliche Wissenschaft
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Archaeological evidence for the abandonment of cult places in the late eighth century

Aharoni, Y. 1974. The Horned Altar at Beersheba.
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Herzog, Z. 2001. The Date of the Temple at Arad: Reassessment of the Stratigraphy and the Implications for the History of Religion in Judah. In A. Mazar, ed.,
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Ussishkin, D. 2003. The Level V “Sanctuary” and “High Place” at Lachish. In C. G. den Hertog, U. Hübner, and S. Münger, eds.,
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Influence of Assyrian chronicles on biblical history writing

Van Seters, J. 1990. Joshua’s Campaign of Canaan and Near Eastern Historiography.
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament
4:1–12.

———. 1997. Solomon’s Temple: Facts and Ideology in Biblical and Near Eastern Historiography.
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
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Hezekiah’s revolt

Grabbe, L. L., ed. 2003.
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Halpern, B. 1991. Jerusalem and the Lineages in the Seventh Century
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: Kinship and the Rise of Individual Moral Liability. In B. Halpern and D. W. Hobson, eds.,
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Lachish and its conquest by Sennacherib

Ussishkin, D. 1982.
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CHAPTER
5.
SOLOMON’S WISDOM?

The archaeology of the days of Manasseh

Finkelstein, I. 1994. The Archaeology of the Days of Manasseh. In M. D. Coogan, J. C. Exum, and L. E. Stager, eds.,
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Settlement activity in the Judean Desert

Cross, F. M., and J. T. Milik. 1956. Explorations in the Judean Buqeah.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
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Stager, L. E. 1976. Farming in the Judean Desert.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
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The six-chambered “Solomonic” gates

Yadin, Y. 1970. Megiddo of the Kings of Israel.
Biblical Archaeologist
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Evidence against the six-chambered gates theory

Ussishkin, D. 1980. Was the “Solomonic” City Gate at Megiddo Built by King Solomon?
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
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———. 1990. Notes on Megiddo, Gezer, Ashdod, and Tel Batash in the Tenth to Ninth Centuries
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Hazor in the ninth and eighth centuries

Finkelstein, I. 1999. Hazor and the North in the Iron Age: A Low Chronology Perspective.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
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The debate over the dating of the Iron Age strata

Ben-Tor, A. 2000. Hazor and Chronology of Northern Israel: A Reply to Israel Finkelstein.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
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Boaretto, E., A. J. T. Jull, A. Gilboa, and I. Sharon. 2005. Dating the Iron Age I/II Transition in Israel: First Intercomparison Results.
Radiocarbon
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Bruins, H. J., J. van der Plicht, and A. Mazar. 2003.
¹⁴
C Dates from Tel Rehov: Iron Age Chronology, Pharaohs, and Hebrew Kings.
Science
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Finkelstein, I., and E. Piasetzky. 2003. Recent Radiocarbon Results and King Solomon.
Antiquity
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———. 2003. Wrong and Right; High and Low—
¹⁴
C Dates from Tel Rehov and Iron Age Chronology.
Tel Aviv
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———. 2003. Comment on “
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C Dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age Chronology, Pharaohs, and Hebrew Kings.”
Science
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Gilboa, A., and I. Sharon. 2003. An Archaeological Contribution to the Early Iron Age Chronological Debate: Alternative Chronologies for Phoenicia and Their Effects on the Levant, Cyprus, and Greece.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
332:7–80.

Levy, T., and T. Higham, eds. 2005.
Radiocarbon Dating and the Iron Age of the Southern Levant: The Bible and Archaeology Today.
London.

Mazar, A. 1997. Iron Age Chronology: A Reply to I. Finkelstein.
Levant
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The Solomonic districts

Na’aman, N. 2002. Solomon’s District List (1 Kings 4:7–19) and the Assyrian Province System in Palestine.
Ugarit-Forschungen
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Late monarchic realities behind the Solomon narrative

Knauf, E. A. 1991. King Solomon’s Copper Supply. In E. Lipinski, ed.,
Phoenicia and the Bible,
167–86. Leuven.

The Megiddo stables

Cantrell, D. 2005. Stable Issues. In I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin, and B. Halpern, eds.,
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Cantrell, D., and I. Finkelstein. 2005. A Kingdom for a Horse: The Megiddo Stables and Eighth Century Israel. In I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin, and B. Halpern, eds.,
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Tel Aviv.

Pritchard, J. B. 1970. The Megiddo Stables: A Reassessment. In J. A. Sanders, ed.,
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268–75. Garden City.

Yadin, Y. 1976. The Megiddo Stables. In F. M. Cross, W. E. Lemke, and P. D. Miller, eds.,
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249–52. Garden City.

Horses in Assyria and Israel

Dalley, S. 1985. Foreign Chariotry and Cavalry in the Armies of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II.
Iraq
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Heidorn, L. A. 1997. The Horses of Kush.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
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The ancient Arabs

Ephal, I. 1982.
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The rise of Edom

Bienkowski, P., ed. 1992.
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Sheffield.

———. 1994. The Origin and Development of Edom. In S. Mazzoni, ed.,
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263–68. Pisa.

Camels at Tell Jemmeh

Wapnish, P. 1984. The Dromedary and Bactrian Camel in Levantine Historical Settings: The Evidence from Tell Jemmeh. In J. Clutton-Brock and C. Grigson, eds.,
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The kingdom of Sheba

Simpson, J., ed. 2002.
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London.

King Hiram of Tyre

Green, A. R. 1983. David’s Relations with Hiram: Biblical and Josephan Evidence for Tyrian Chronology. In C. L. Meyers and M. O’Connor, eds.,
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Mendels, D. 1998. Hellenistic Writers of the Second Century
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on the Hiram-Solomon Relationship. In
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Glueck on Solomon’s copper at Ezion-geber

Glueck, N. 1940. The Third Season of Excavation at Tell el-Kheleifeh.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
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———. 1965. Ezion-geber.
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A reevaluation of the finds from Tell el-Kheleifeh

Pratico, G. D. 1993.
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The Timna mines—a current view

Rothenberg, B. 1972.
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The copper mines at Wadi Feinan

Hauptmann, A., and G. Weisgerber. 1992. Periods of Ore Exploitation and Metal Production in the Area of Feinan, Wadi Arabah, Jordan.
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Knauf, E. A., and C. J. Lenzen. 1987. Edomite Copper Industry.
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CHAPTER
6.
CHALLENGING GOLIATH

The figure of King Manasseh in the Deuteronomistic History

Ben-Zvi, E. 1991. The Account of the Reign of Manasseh in II Reg 21:1–18 and the Redactional History of the Book of Kings.
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Eynikel, E. 1997. The Portrait of Manasseh and the Deuteronomistic History. In M. Vervene and J. Lust, eds.,
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Halpern, B. 1998. Why Manasseh Was Blamed for the Babylonian Exile: The Revolution of a Biblical Tradition.
Vetus Testamentum
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Schniedewind, W. M. 1991. The Source Citations of Manasseh: King Manasseh in History and Homily.
Vetus Testamentum
41:450–61.

Van Keulen, P. 1996.
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