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———. 1997. Separating the Solomon of History from the Solomon of Legend. In L. K. Handy, ed.,
The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium,
1–24. Leiden.

Niemann, H. M. 1997. The Socio-Political Shadow Cast by the Biblical Solomon. In L. K. Handy, ed.,
The Age of Solomon: Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium,
252–99. Leiden.

———. 2000. Megiddo and Solomon—A Biblical Investigation in Relation to Archaeology.
Tel Aviv
27:59–72.

Silberman, N. A. 2003. Archaeology, Ideology, and the Search for David and Solomon. In A. G. Vaughn and A. E. Killebrew, eds.
Jerusalem in the Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period,
395–405. Atlanta.

The minimalist approach

Davies, P. 1992.
In Search of “Ancient Israel.”
Sheffield.

Garbini, G. 2003.
Myth and History in the Bible.
London.

Lemche, N. P. 1998.
The Israelites in History and Tradition.
London.

Thompson, T. L. 1992.
Early History of the Israelite People.
Leiden.

———. 1999.
The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past.
London.

Against the minimalist approach

Albertz, R. 2001. An End to the Confusion? Why the Old Testament Cannot Be a Hellenistic Book! In L. L. Grabbe, ed.,
Did Moses Speak Attic?,
30–46. Sheffield.

Dever, W. G. 2001.
What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel.
Grand Rapids.

Halpern, B. 1995. Erasing History.
Bible Review:
26–35, 47.

Schniedewind, W. 2003. Jerusalem, the Late Judaean Monarchy and the Composition of the Biblical Texts. In A. G. Vaughn and A. E. Killebrew, eds.
Jerusalem in the Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period,
375–394. Atlanta.

Hurwitz, A. 1997. The Historical Quest for “Ancient Israel” and the Linguistic Evidence of the Hebrew Bible: Some Methodological Observations.
Vetus Testamentum
47:301–15.

C
HAPTER
1. T
ALES OF THE
B
ANDIT

Archaeological surveys in the highlands of Judah

Finkelstein, I. 1995. The Great Transformation: The “Conquest” of the Highlands Frontiers and the Rise of the Territorial States. In T. E. Levy, ed.,
The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land,
349–65. London.

Lehmann, G. 2003. The United Monarchy in the Countryside: Jerusalem, Judah, and the Shephelah During the Tenth Century. In A. G. Vaughn and A. E. Killebrew, eds.,
Jerusalem in the Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period,
117–62. Atlanta.

Ofer, A. 1994. “All the Hill Country of Judah”: From Settlement Fringe to a Prosperous Monarchy. In I. Finkelstein and N. Na’aman, eds.,
From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel,
92–121. Jerusalem.

Settlement history of the Beer-sheba Valley

Herzog, Z. 1994. The Beer-Sheba Valley: From Nomadism to Monarchy. In I. Finkelstein and N. Na’aman, eds.,
From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel,
122–49. Jerusalem.

———. 2002. The Fortress Mound at Tel Arad: An Interim Report.
Tel Aviv
29:3–109, especially 84–102.

Settlement patterns in the Shephelah

Dagan, Y. 2004. Results of the Survey: Settlement Patterns in the Lachish Region. In D. Ussishkin,
The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish (1973–1994),
vol. V, 2672–90. Tel Aviv.

Canaan in the Amarna period

Bunimovitz, S. 1994. The Problem of Human Resources in Late Bronze Age Palestine and Its Socioeconomic Implications.
Ugarit-Forschungen
26:1–20.

Finkelstein, I. 1996. The Territorio-Political System of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age.
Ugarit-Forschungen
28:221–55.

Na’aman, N. 1997. The Network of Canaanite Late Bronze Kingdoms and the City of Ashdod.
Ugarit-Forschungen
29:599–626.

Late Bronze Age Jerusalem

Na’aman, N. 1996. The Contribution of the Amarna Letters to the Debate on Jerusalem’s Political Position in the Tenth Century
B.C.E
.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
304:17–27.

The
Shosu
and the Apiru

Giveon, R. 1971.
Les bédouin Shosou des documents égyptiens.
Leiden.

Greenberg, M. 1955.
The Hab/piru.
New Haven.

Na’aman, N. 1986. Habiru and Hebrews: The Transfer of a Social Term to the Literary Sphere.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
45:271–88.

Rainey, A. F. 1995. Unruly Elements in Late Bronze Canaanite Society. In D. P. Wright, D. N. Freedman, and A. Hurvitz, eds.,
Pomegranates and Golden Bells,
481–96. Winona Lake.

Rowton, M. B. 1976. Dimorphic Structure and the Problem of the
Apiru-Ibrim. Journal of Near Eastern Studies
35:13–20.

Ward, W. A. 1972. The Shasu “Bedouin”: Notes on a Recent Publication.
Journal of the Economy and Social History of the Orient
15:35–60.

Banditry

Hobsbawm, E. J. 1985.
Bandits.
Harmondsworth.

Heroic tales in the second book of Samuel

Isser, S. 2003.
The Sword of Goliath.
Atlanta.

CHAPTER
2.
THE MADNESS OF SAUL

Saul in biblical and historical studies

Edelman, D. 1988. Saul’s Journey Through Mt. Ephraim and Samuel’s Ramah (1 Sam. 9:4–5, 10:2–5).
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
104:44–58.

———. 1990. The Deuteronomist’s Story of King Saul: Narrative Art or Editorial Product? In C. Brekelmans and J. Lust, eds.,
Pentateuchal and Deuteronomistic Studies,
207–20. Leuven.

———. 1991.
King Saul in the Historiography of Judah.
Sheffield.

———.1996. Saul ben Kish in History and Tradition. In V. Fritz and Ph. R. Davies, eds.,
The Origin of the Ancient Israelite States,
142–59. Sheffield.

Gunn, D. 1981. A Man Given Over to Trouble: The Story of King Saul. In B. O. Long, ed.
Images of Man and God: Old Testament Short Stories in Literary Focus,
89–112. Sheffield.

Humphreys, W. L. 1980. The Rise and Fall of King Saul: A Study of an Ancient Narrative Stratum in 1 Samuel.
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
18:74–90.

Long, V. P. 1989.
The Reign and Rejection of King Saul: A Case for Literary and Theological Coherence.
Atlanta.

———. 1994. How Did Saul Become King? Literary Reading and Historical Reconstruction. In A. R. Millard, J. K. Hoffmeier, and D. W. Baker, eds.,
Faith, Tradition, and History,
271–84. Winona Lake.

Na’aman, N. 1992. The Pre-Deuteronomistic Story of King Saul and Its Historical Significance.
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
54:638–58.

Peckham, B. 1985. The Deuteronomistic History of Saul and David.
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
97:190–209.

Scheffler, E. 2000. Saving Saul from the Deuteronomist. In J. C. de Moor and H. F. Van Rooy, eds.,
Past, Present, Future: The Deuteronomistic History and the Prophets,
263–71. Leiden.

Van der Toorn, K. 1993. Saul and the Rise of Israelite State Religion.
Vetus Testamentum
43:519–42.

Walters, S. D. 1991. Saul of Gibeon.
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
52:61–76.

White, M. 2000. “The History of Saul’s Rise”: Saulide State Propaganda in 1 Samuel 1–14. In S. M. Olyan and R. C. Culley, eds.,
“A Wise and Discerning Mind”: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long,
271–92. Providence.

———. 2001. Searching for Saul. What We Really Know About Israel’s First King.
Biblical Research
17:22–29, 52–53.

The territory of Saul

Edelman, D. 1985. The “Ashurites” of Eshbaal’s State (2 Sam. 2.9).
Palestine Exploration Quarterly
117:85–91.

Na’aman, N. 1990. The Kingdom of Ishbaal.
Biblische Notizen
54:33–37.

Archaeological surveys in the northern highlands

Finkelstein, I. 1995. The Great Transformation: The “Conquest” of the Highlands Frontiers and the Rise of the Territorial States. In T. E. Levy, ed.,
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349–65. London.

Finkelstein, I., and Y. Magen, eds. 1993.
Archaeological Survey of the Hill Country of Benjamin.
Jerusalem. (Hebrew with English summaries.)

Zertal, A. 1994. “To the Land of the Perizzites and the Giants”: On the Israelite Settlement in the Hill Country of Manasseh. In I. Finkelstein and N. Na’aman, eds.,
From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel,
47–69. Jerusalem.

Settlement patterns in Jordan

Finkelstein, I. 1998. From Sherds to History: Review Article.
Israel Exploration Journal
48:120–31.

Shiloh

Finkelstein, I., ed. 1993.
Shiloh: The Archaeology of a Biblical Site.
Tel Aviv.

Khirbet et-Tell and Khirbet Raddana

Callaway, J. A. 1976. Excavating Ai (et-Tell): 1964–1972.
Biblical Archaeologist
39:18–30.

Callaway, J. A., and R. E. Cooley. 1971. A Salvage Excavation at Raddana, in Bireh.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
201:9–19.

Lederman, Z. 1999.
An Early Iron Age Village at Khirbet Raddana: The Excavations of Joseph A. Callaway.
Ann Arbor.

The Shishak (Sheshonq I) campaign

Ahlstrom, G. W. 1993. Pharaoh Sheshonq’s Campaign to Palestine. In A. Lemaire and B. Otzen, eds.,
History and Traditions of Early Israel,
1–16. Leiden.

Kitchen, K. A. 1986.
The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650
B.C.
)
, 432–47. Warminster.

Mazar, B. 1957. The Campaign of Pharaoh Shishak to Palestine.
Vetus Testamentum Supplement
4:57–66.

Redford, D. B. 1992.
Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times,
312–15. Princeton.

The tenth century
BCE
, archaeology, and Shishak: a revised view

Finkelstein, I. 2002. The Campaign of Sheshonq I to Palestine: A Guide to the 10th Century
BCE
Polity.
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
118:109–35.

———. 2003. City-States to States: Polity Dynamics in the 10th–9th Centuries
B.C.E
. In W. G. Dever and S. Gitin, eds.,
Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors from the Late Bronze Age Through Roman Palestine,
75–84. Winona Lake.

Gibeon as the hub of the Saulides

Blenkinsopp, J. 1974. Did Saul Make Gibeon His Capital?
Vetus Testamentum
24:1–7.