ANCIENT NEAR EAST:
A Selected Bibliography
Of Locally Available Sources for the
William Carey College Course HIS 323/REL 303
NOTE: At the end of each entry, codes appear: WCC indicates the item is available in the Rouse Library
of WCC (books generally will be placed on class reserve; DCB means the item is only available
locally (Hattiesburg, MS area) from Daniel Browning
Abbreviations
BA
BAR
BASOR
Biblical Archaeologist
Biblical Archaeology Review
Bulletin of the American Schools or Oriental Research
General Reference Sources
(These should be consulted for any topic in the class)
Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Online at: http://www.eb.com:195/. [Get password from Rouse Library
staff].
Freedman, David Noel, Editor. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 Vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
[WCU call no. = Ref 220.3 A539f].
Myers, Eric M., Editor. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. 5 Vols. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1997. [WCU call no. = Ref 939.4 O98m].
Redford, Donald B., Editor. The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt. Oxford ; New York : Oxford
University Press, 2001. [WCU call no. = Ref 932 O98r].
Sasson, Jack M., Editor. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. 4 Vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1995. [WCU call no.: Ref 939.4 C582s].
Skolnik, Fred , Editor. Encyclopaedia Judaica. 16 Vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2007. [WCU call
no. = REF 296.03 J92e 2007].
Stern, Ephraim, Editor. The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. 4 Vols.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. [Ref 933.003 N532s].
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Articles and Chapters Arranged by Topic
(Generally, topics are arranged according to the order covered in class)
 Geography
Beitzel, Barry J. “The Via Maris in Literary and Cartographic Sources.” BA 54 (June 1991): 64-75.
WCC.
Rainey, Anson. “Historical Geography.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel F. Drinkard, Jr.,
Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 353-69. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988. WCC.
 History of Biblical Archaeology
Benoit, Pierre. “French Archaeologists.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel F. Drinkard, Jr.,
Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 63-86. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988. WCC.
Calloway, Joseph A. “Sir Flinders Petrie: Father of Palestinian Archaeology.” BAR 6 (Nov/Dec 1980):
44-55. WCC.
Davies, Graham I. “British Archaeologists.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel F. Drinkard,
Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 37-62. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988. WCC.
King, Philip J. “American Archaeologists.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel F. Drinkard,
Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 15-36. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988. WCC.
_______. “The Influence of G. Ernest Wright on the Archaeology of Palestine.” In Archaeology and
Biblical Interpretation, edited by Leo G. Perdue, Lawrence E. Toombs, and Gary L. Johnson, 15-30.
Atlanta: John Knox, 1987. WCC,
Mazar, Amihai. “Israeli Archaeologists.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel F. Drinkard, Jr.,
Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 109-28. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988. WCC.
Mendenhall, George E. “Biblical Interpretation and the Albright School.” In Archaeology and Biblical
Interpretation, edited by Leo G. Perdue, Lawrence E. Toombs, and Gary L. Johnson, 3-14. Atlanta:
John Knox, 1987. WCC,
Miller, J. Maxwell. “Antecedents to Modern Archaeology.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds.
Joel F. Drinkard, Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 3-14. Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1988. WCC.
Ryan, Donald P. “Giovanni Battista Belzoni.” BA 49 (September 1986): 133-39.
Weippert, Manfred and Helga. “German Archaeologists.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel
F. Drinkard, Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 87-108. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
WCC.
 Archaeological Technique
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Borass, Roger S. “Publication of Archaeological Reports,” in Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel
F. Drinkard, Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 325-36. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
WCC.
Dever, William G. “Impact of the 'New Archaeology'.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel F.
Drinkard, Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 337-52. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
WCC.
________. “Retrospects and Prospects in Biblical and Syro-Palestinian Archaeology.” BA 45 (1982):
103-107. WCC. Also reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. BenTor, 51-55. Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Dever, William G. “Archaeology, Syro-Palestinian and Biblical,” In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed.
David Noel Freedman, I: 354-67. New York: Doubleday, 1992. WCC.
Drinkard, Joel F. “Eprgraphy as a Dating Method,” in Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds. Joel F.
Drinkard, Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 417-40. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
WCC.
LaBianca, Öystein S. “Sociocultural Anthropology and Syro-palestinian Archaeology,” in Benchmarks in
Time and Culture, eds. Joel F. Drinkard, Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 369-88.
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988. WCC.
Lance, Darrell. The Old Testament and the Archaeologist. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981, 12-46. DCB.
Reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor, 1-18. Jerusalem:
Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Mattingly, Gerald L. “Settlement Patterns and Sociocultural Reconstruction,” in Benchmarks in Time and
Culture, eds. Joel F. Drinkard, Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 389-416. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1988. WCC.
Wiseman, Donald J. “The Bottleneck of Archaeological Publication.” BAR 16 (September/October
1990): 60-63.
Rose, D. Glenn. “The Bible and Archaeology: The State of the Art.” In Archaeology and Biblical
Interpretation, edited by Leo G. Perdue, Lawrence E. Toombs, and Gary L. Johnson, 53-66. Atlanta:
John Knox, 1987. WCC.
Stern, Ephraim. “The Bible and Israeli Archaeology.”In Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation, edited
by Leo G. Perdue, Lawrence E. Toombs, and Gary L. Johnson, 31-40. Atlanta: John Knox, 1987.
WCC, .
Toombs, Lawrence E. “A Perspective on the New Archaeology.” In Archaeology and Biblical
Interpretation, edited by Leo G. Perdue, Lawrence E. Toombs, and Gary L. Johnson, 41-52. Atlanta:
John Knox, 1987. WCC.
 Archaeology and Biblical Studies
Davis, Thomas W. “Faith and Archaeology.” BAR 19 (March/April 1993): 54-59. WCC.
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de Vaux, Roland. “On Right and Wrong Uses of Archaeology.” In Near Eastern Archaeology in the
Twentieth Century: Essays in Honor of Nelson Glueck, ed. J. A. Sanders, 64-80. New York:
Doubleday, 1970. Reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor,
33-41. Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Dever, William G. “Archaeology and the Bible--Understanding Their Special Relationship.” BAR 16
(May/June 1990): 52-58, 62. WCC.
Eakins, J. Kenneth. “The Future of 'Biblical Archaeology'.” In Benchmarks in Time and Culture, eds.
Joel F. Drinkard, Jr., Gerald L. Mattingly, and J. Maxwell Miller, 441-54. Atlanta: Scholars Press,
1988. WCC.
Miller, J. Maxwell. “Old Testament History and Archaeology.” BA 50 (March 1987): 55-63. WCC.
Moyer, James C. and Matthews, Victor H. “The Use and Abuse of Archaeology in Current Bible
Handbooks.” BA 48 (September 1985): 149-61. WCC.
Sauer, James A. “Syro-Palestinian Archaeology, History and Biblical Studies.” BA 45 (1982): 201-209.
WCC. Also reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor, 1-18.
Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
 Fantastic 'Arkeology' and Crank Theories
Shanks, Hershel. “Tom Crotser Has Found the Ark of the Covenant—Or Has He?” BAR 9 (May/June
1983): 66-69; idem. “The Ark That Wasn't There,” Biblical Archaeology Review 9 (July/August
1983): 58-61. WCC.
Silberman, Neil Asher. “In Search of Solomon's Lost Treasures.” Biblical Archaeology Review 6/4
(1980): 31-41. WCC.
________. “Secrets of the Temple Mount: Ambition, Greed, and a Search for Treasure in Jerusalem,
1909-1911,” Chapter 17 in Digging for God and Country: Exploration in the Holy Land, 1799-1917,
180-88. New York: Anchor, 1982. DCB.
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 Neolithic through Chalcolithic Age
Epstein, Claire. “A New Aspect of Chalcolithic Culture.” BASOR 229 (1978): 27-45. Reprinted in
Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor, 144-62. Jerusalem: Hebrew
University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Epstein, Claire. “Aspects of Symbolism in Chalcolithic Palestine,” in Archaeology in the Levant: Essays
for Kathleen Kenyon, eds. P. R. S. Moorey and P. J. Parr, 22-35. Warminster: Aris and Phillips,
1978. WCC. Also reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor,
144-62. Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Gonen, Rivka. “The Chalcolithic Period,” in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel, ed. Amnon Ben-Tor,
trans. R. Greenburg, 40-80. New Haven: Yale, 1992. DCB.
Kenyon, Kathleen. “From the First Settlements to the Beginnings of Civilization,” in Archaeology in the
Holy Land, 58-83. 3rd ed. London: Praeger, 1971. WCC.
Levy, Thomas E. “The Chalcolithic Period.” BA 49 (June 1986): 82-108. WCC.
Mazar, Amihai. “The First Agricultural Communities: The Neolithic Period (ca. 8500-4300 B.C.E.,” in
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 2, 35-57. New York: Doubleday,
1990. DCB.
________. “Innovative Communities of the Fourth Millennium: The Chalcolithic Period (ca. 4300-3300
B.C.E.,” in Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 3, 59-90. New York:
Doubleday, 1990. .
Ussishkin, David. “The 'Ghassulian' Temple in Ein Gedi and the Origin of the Hoard from Nahal
Mishmar.” BA 34 (February 1971): 23-39. WCC.
 Early Bronze Age
Amiran, Ruth. “The Beginnings of Urbanization in Canaan,” in Near Eastern Archaeology in the
Twentieth Century: Essays in Honor of Nelson Glueck, ed. J. A. Sanders, 181-93. New York:
Doubleday, 1970. DCB. Reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. BenTor, 144-62. Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Ben-Tor, Amnon. “The Early Bronze Age,” in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel, ed. Amnon Ben-Tor,
trans. R. Greenburg, 81-125. New Haven: Yale, 1992. DCB.
Lapp, Paul. “Palestine in the Early Bronze Age,” in Near Eastern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century:
Essays in Honor of Nelson Glueck, ed. J. A. Sanders, 101-31. New York: Doubleday, 1970. DCB.
Reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor, 194-209.
Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Mazar, Amihai. “The Emergence of Cities: The Early Bronze Age (ca. 3300-2200 B.C.E.,” in
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 4, 91-150. New York: Doubleday,
1990. .
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Richard, Suzanne. “The Early Bronze Age: The Rise and Collapse of Urbanism.” BA 50 (March 1987):
22-43. WCC.
 EB IV/Middle Bronze I Period
Albright, William Foxwell. “Abram the Hebrew: A New Archaeological Interpretation.” BASOR 163
(1961): 36-54. Reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor, 21423. Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Dever, William G. “New Vistas on the EB IV ('MB I') Horizon in Palestine.” BASOR 237 (1980): 35-64.
DCB. Reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor, 255-84.
Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Gophna, Ram. “The Intermediate Bronze Age,” in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel, ed. Amnon BenTor, trans. R. Greenburg, 126-158. New Haven: Yale, 1992. DCB.
Mazar, Amihai. “An Interlude: The EB IV/MB I Period (ca. 2300-2000 B.C.E.),” in Archaeology of the
Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 5, 151-73. New York: Doubleday, 1990. .
Rast, Walter E. “Bab edh-Dhra and the Origin of the Sodom Saga,” In Archaeology and Biblical
Interpretation, 31-40. Atlanta: John Knox, 1987. WCC.
 Middle Bronze Age
Dever, William G. “The Middle Bronze Age: The Zenith of the Urban Canaanite Era.” BA 50 (September
1987): 148-77. WCC.
Kempinski, Aharon. “The Middle Bronze Age,” in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel, ed. Amnon BenTor, trans. R. Greenburg, 159-210. New Haven: Yale, 1992. DCB.
Kitchen, Kenneth A. “The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?” BAR 21 (March/April 1995):
52-56. WCC.
Lemaire, Andre. “Mari, the Bible, and the Northwest Semitic World.”BA 47 (June 1984): 101-109. WCC.
Malamat, Abraham. “Mari.” BA 34 (February 1971): 2-22. WCC.
Mazar, Amihai. “Mighty Canaanite City-States: The Middle Bronze II Period (ca. 2000-1550 B.C.E.),” in
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 6, 174-231. New York: Doubleday,
1990.
Pardee, Dennis & Glass, Jonathan T. “The Mari Archives.” BA 47 (June 1984): 88-99. WCC.
 Late Bronze Age
Gonen, Rivka. “The Late Bronze Age,” in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel, ed. Amnon Ben-Tor, trans.
R. Greenburg, 211-57. New Haven: Yale, 1992. DCB.
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Leonard, Albert. “The Late Bronze Age.” BA 52 (March 1989): 4-39 (lots of illustrations). WCC.
Mazar, Amihai. “In the Shadow of Egyptian Domination: The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1550-1200 B.C.E.),”
in Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 7, 232-94. New York: Doubleday,
1990.
Powell, Barry B. “Who Invented the Alphabet: The Semites or the Greeks?” and McCarter, P. Kyle.
“Who Invented the Alphabet? A Different View.” Archaeology Odyssey 1/1 (1998): 44-49, 52-53, 70
and 50-51, 67. DCB
Sarna, Nahum M. “Exploring Exodus: The Oppression.” BA 49 (June 1986): 68-81. WCC.
 Canaanite Religon
Hestrin, Ruth. “Understanding Asherah--Exploring Semitic Iconography.” Biblical Archaeology Review
17 (September/October 1991): 50-59. WCC.
 The Emergence of Israel
Browning, Daniel, “‘The Hill Country Is Not Enough for Us:’ Recent Archaeology and the Book of
Joshua.” Southwestern Journal of Theology 41/1 (Fall 1998): 25-43.
Finklestein, Israel. “Searching for Israelite Origins.” Biblical Archaeology Review 14
(September/October 1988): 34-45, 58. WCC.
Fritz, Volkmar. “Conquest or Settlement?: The Early Iron Age in Palestine.” BA 50 (June 1987): 84-104.
WCC.
Malamat, Abraham. “How Inferior Israelite Forces Conquered Fortified Canaanite Cities.” Biblical
Archaeology Review 8 (March/April 1982): 24-35. WCC.
Mazar, Amihai. “The Days of the Judges: Iron Age I (ca. 1200-1000 B.C.E.),” in Archaeology of the
Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 8, 295-367. New York: Doubleday, 1990. .
Steibing, William H., Jr. “Should the Exodus and the Israelite Settlement be Redated?” BAR 11
(July/August 1985): 58-69. (Responds to radical redating theories) WCC.
Ussishkin, David. “Lachish: Key to the Israelite Conquest of Canaan.” Biblical Archaeology Review 13
(January/February 1987): 18-39. (Well illustrated; good article with challenging conclusions) WCC.
Wood, Bryant. “Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho? A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence.”
Biblical Archaeology Review 16/2 (March/April 1990): 44-59.
Yadin, Yigael. “Is the Biblical Account of the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Historically Reliable?”
Biblical Archaeology Review 8 (March/April 1982): 17-23. WCC.
Yurco, Frank J. “3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt.” Biblcial Archaeology Review 16
(September/October 1990): 20-38. and “Scholars Disagree;” “Rainey's Challange; “ and “Yurco's
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Response.” Biblcial Archaeology Review 17 (November/December 1991): 54-61. (Great article with
lots of pictures; very important) WCC.
Zertal, Adam. “Has Joshua's Altar Been Found on Mt. Ebal?” Biblical Archaeology Review 11
(January/February 1985): 26-43. (Exciting discovery) WCC.
________. “Israel Enters Canaan—Following the Pottery Trail.” Biblical Archaeology Review 17
(September/October 1991): 28-47. (Good review of the problem and new evidence) WCC.
 Early Iron Age; Sea Peoples and Philistines
Raban, Avner. “The Harbor of the Sea Peoples at Dor.” BA 50 (June 1987): 118-26. WCC.
Stager, Lawrence E. “When Canaanites and Philistines Ruled Ashkelon.” Biblical Archaeology Review
17 (March/April 1991): 24-43. (First of a three-part series on Ashkelon; the others, in later sections,
should be read also). WCC.
Stern, Ephraim. “The Many Masters of Dor.” BAR 19 (January/February 1993): 22-31, 76-78. (part one)
WCC.
Wood, Bryant. “The Philistines Enter Canaan--Where They Egyptian Lackeys or Invading Conquerers?”
Biblical Archaeology Review 17 (November/December 1991): 44-52, 89 and Singer, Itamar. “How
Did the Philistines Enter Canaan?” BAR 18 (November/December 1992): 44-46. (counts as 2 articles)
WCC.
 United Monarchy
Flinder, Alexander. “Is This Solomon's Seaport?” BAR 15 (July/August 1989): 30-43. WCC.
Mazar, Amihai. “The United Monarchy: Iron Age IIA (ca. 1000-925 B.C.E.),” in Archaeology of the Land
of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 9, 368-402. New York: Doubleday, 1990. WCC.
Millard, Alan R. “Does the Bible Exaggerate King Solomon's Wealth?” and Kenneth A. Kitchen, “Where
Did Solomon's Gold Go?” and “Shishak's Military Campaign in Israel Confirmed,” Biblical
Archaeology Review 15 (May/June 1989): 20-34. (Well illustrated and thought provoking) WCC.
Naaman, Nadav, “Cow Town or Royal Capital? Evidence for Iron Age Jerusalem.” BAR 23/4 (July/Aug
1997): 43-47, 67. WCC.
Stewart, Andrew. “A Death at Dor.” BAR 19/2 (March/April 1993): 30-36, 84. WCC.
 Ninth Century B.C. Israel and Judah
Browning, Daniel C. “Tirzah.” Biblical Illustrator 17 (Summer 1991): 82-84. WCC.
Horn, Siegfried. “Why the Moabite Stone Was Blown to Pieces: 9th Century B.C. Inscription Adds New
Dimension to Biblical Account of Mesha's Rebellion.” Biblical Archaeology Review 12 (May/June
1986): 50-61. (Good review of this important find and its implications) WCC.
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Kaufman, Ivan T. “The Samaria Ostraca: An Early Witness to Hebrew Writing.” BA 45 (Fall 1982): 22939. WCC.
Lemaire, Andre. “Who or What Was Yahweh's Asherah?” BAR (November/December 1984): 42-51. WCC.
Mazar, Amihai. “The Divided Monarchy: Iron Age IIB-C (ca. 925-586 B.C.E.),” in Archaeology of the
Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 10, 403-62. New York: Doubleday, 1990. .
Shiloh, Yigal. “Jerusalem's Water Supply During Siege: The Rediscovery of Warren's Shaft.” Biblical
Archaeology Review 7 (1981): 24-39. WCC.
________. “Underground Water Systems in Eretz-Israel in the Iron Age.” In Archaeology and Biblical
Interpretation, edited by Leo G. Perdue, Lawrence E. Toombs, and Gary L. Johnson, 203-44.
Atlanta: John Knox, 1987. WCC,
Yadin, Yigael. “Megiddo of the Kings of Israel.” BA 33 (September 1970): 66-96. (A reinterpretation of
the strata at Megiddo) WCC.
 Eighth Century B.C. Israel and Judah: The Assyrian Crisis
Albenda, Pauline. “Syrian-Palestinian Cities on Stone.” BA 43 (Fall 1980): 222-29. WCC.
Bleibtrau, Erika. “Five Ways to Conquer a City.” Biblical Archaeology Review 16 (May/June 1990): 3644. and “Grisly Assyrian Record of Torture and Death.” BAR 17 (January/February 1991): 52-61, 75.
WCC.
Bunimovitz, Shomo and Lederman, Zvi. “Beth-Shemesh: Culture Conflict on Judah’s Frontier.” BAR
23/1 (January/February 1997): 42-49, 75-77. WCC.
Hallo, William W. “From Qarqar to Carchemish: Assyria and Israel in the Light of New Discoveries.”
BA 23 (May 1960): 34-61. (Excellent review of historical events) WCC.
Kelm, George L. and Mazar, Amihai. “Excavating in Samson Country: Philistines and Israelites at Tel
Batash.” Biblical Archaeology Review 15 (January/February 1989): 36-49. WCC.
King, Philip J. “The Marzeah Amos Denounces.” BAR 14 (July/August 1988): 34-45. WCC.
Mazar, Amihai. “General Aspects of the Israelite Material Culture,” in Archaeology of the Land of the
Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 11, 463-530. New York: Doubleday, 1990. DCB.
Mazar, Eilat. “Royal Gateway to Ancient Jerusalem Uncovered,” Biblical Archaeology Review 15
(May/June 1989): 38-51.
Shanks, Hershel. “Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures,”
and Ussishkin, David, “Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season.” Biblical
Archaeology Review 10 (March/April 1984): 48-73. (Fabulously illustrated account of data bearing
light on Sennacherib's invasion in the days of Hezekiah) WCC.
Stern, Ephraim. “How Bad Was Ahab?” BAR 19 (March/April 1993): 18-29. (part two in a series) WCC.
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Ussishkin, David. “The Necropolis from the Time of the Kingdom of Judah at Silwan, Jerusalem.” BA 33
(May 1970): 34-46. WCC.
Wright, G. Ernest. “Samaria.” BA 22 (September 1959): 67-78. WCC.
 Seventh Century B.C. Judah and the Neo-Bababylonian Empire
Avigad, Nahman. “Jerahmeel & Baruch: King's Son & Scribe.” BA 42 (Spring 1979): 114-118.
(Identification of Biblical figures from seal impressions) WCC.
Barkai, Gabriel. “News from the Field: The Divine Name Found in Jerusalem.” Biblical Archaeology
Review 9 (March/April 1983): 14-19. WCC.
Borowski, Oded. “Yadin Presents New Interpretation of the Famous Lachish Letters.” Biblical
Archaeology Review 10 (March/April 1984): 74-77. (A little technichal; a good article for those into
Hebrew) WCC.
Browning, Daniel C. “Contracts, Deeds, and Their Containers.” Biblical Illustrator 16 (Spring 1990): 6266. WCC.
Gitin, Seymour. “Ekron of the Philistines, Part II: Olive-Oil Suppliers to the World.” Biblical
Archaeology Review 16 (March/April 1990): 32-42. WCC.
Hays, J. Daniel. “From the Land of the Bow: Black Soldiers in the Ancient Near East.” BR 14/4 (August
1998): 28-33, 50-51. DCB
Mazar, Amihai. “Israel's Neighbors and the Assyrian and Babylonian Domination,” in Archaeology of the
Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E., Chap. 12, 531-50. New York: Doubleday, 1990. DCB.
Shanks, Hershel. “The City of David After Five Years of Digging.” Biblical Archaeology Review 11
(November/December 1985): 48-38. (Well illustrated overview of excavations in Jerusalem) WCC.
Schneider, Tsvi. “Six Biblical Signatures: Seals and Seal Impressions of Six Biblical Personages
Recovered.” Biblical Archaeology Review 17 (July/August 1991): 26-33. WCC.
Stern, Ephraim. “Israel at the Close of the Monarchy: An Archaeological Survey.” BA 38 (May 1975):
26-54. WCC. Reprinted in Introduction to the Archaeology of Palestine, edited by A. Ben-Tor, 54357. Jerusalem: Hebrew University School for Overseas Students, 1984. DCB.
Yadin, Yigael. “Beer-sheba: The High Place Destroyed by King Josiah.” Bulletin of the American
Schools of Oriental Research 222 (April 1976): 1-17.
Yamauchi, Edwin. “The Scythians: Invading Hordes from the Russion Steppes.” BA 46 (Spring 1983):
90-99. (Includes comments on identifying 'Gog' and 'Magog' with the U.S.S.R.) WCC.