538 notes to pp. 19–29
Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology (Oxford, 2004); H. G. M.
Williamson, ed., Understanding the History of Ancient Israel (Oxford, 2007).
- On Megiddo, see G. I. Davies, Megiddo (Cambridge, 1986); on excavations
south of the Temple Mount excavations, see E. Mazar, ‘Did I Find King David’s
Palace?’, BAR 32 (2006), 16 - 27, 70; on early Hebrew inscriptions, see G. I.
Davies, Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1991- 2004); on the
campaigns of 701 bce, see A. Kuhrt, ‘Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem’, in A. K.
Bowman, H. M. Cotton, M. Goodman and S. Price, eds., Representations of
Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World (Oxford, 2002), 13 - 33. 28. On the
manipulation of this history by later generations, see M. Z. Brettler, The Creation
of History in Ancient Israel (London, 1995), 20 - 47; on the coins, see Y. Meshorer,
A Treasury of Jewish Coins from the Persian Period to Bar Kokhba (Jerusalem,
2001); on the Elephantine documents, see B. Porten et al., The Elephantine Papyri
in English: Three Millennia of Cross‑ Cultural Continuity and Change (Leiden,
1996). 29. For a concise account of this history, see A. Kuhrt, The Ancient Near
East c. 3000 ‑ 330 bc, 2 vols. (London, 1995) and G. Shipley, The Greek World
after Alexander, 323‑ 30 bc (London, 2000). 30. On Mesopotamian creation
myths, see W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths (Winona Lake, Ind.,
2013); on the partial Romanization of Herodian Jerusalem, see E. Netzer, The
Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder (Tübingen, 2006). 31. On the growth
of the diaspora before 70 ce, see E. Gruen, Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and
Romans (Cambridge, Mass., 2004); on Asinaeus and Anilaeus, see Jos. AJ 18.
314 - 70; on interventions on behalf of the political rights of diaspora communi-
ties, see M. Pucci ben Zeev, Jewish Rights in the Roman World: The Greek and
Roman Documents Quoted by Josephus Flavius (Tübingen, 1998). 32. On the
variety of names in use, and their significance, see M. Goodman, ‘Romans, Jews
and Christians on the Names of the Jews’, in D. C. Harlow et al., eds., The ‘Other’
in Second Temple Judaism (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2011), 391- 401.
Chapter 2: The Formation of the Bible
- For an introduction to the Bible, see J. Barton, What is the Bible? (London,
1991). 2. On the composition history of the biblical books, see J. A. Soggin,
Introduction to the Old Testament: From its Origins to the Closing of the Alex‑
andrian Canon (London, 1989). 3. On redaction criticism in biblical studies, see
J. Barton, Reading the Old Testament: Method in Biblical Study (London, 1996),
45 - 60; for a holistic reading of Isaiah, see E. W. Conrad, Reading Isaiah (Min-
neapolis, 1991); on the Qumran Isaiah scroll, see E. Ulrich and P. Flint, Qumran
Cave 1. II: The Isaiah Scrolls, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2010). 4. On Mesopotamian
bureaucracies, see H. Crawford, Sumer and the Sumerians (Cambridge, 2004); on
the flood story, see A. Dundes, ed., The Flood Myth (Berkeley, 1988); on Ham-
murabi, see D. Charpin, Hammurabi of Babylon (London, 2012). 5. On hostility
to Egypt, see Jer 46:25; for Judaism presented as a counter- religion, see J. Ass-
mann, Moses the Egyptian (Cambridge, 1997), 23 - 54; for speculation on angels