2 Tel Armarna: I. Finkelstein and N.A. Silberman, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Text (henceforth Finkelstein/Silberman) 238–41. Peters 6–14.
3 Egypt, Moses and Exodus: Exodus 1. ‘I am who I am’: Exodus 3.14. Abraham covenant: Genesis 17.8–10. Melchizedek King of Salem: Genesis 14.18. Isaac: Genesis 22.2. Ramases II and Exodus: Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (henceforth Egypt) 324–45; Merneptah 343–5; Israel, Sea Peoples, Philistines 343–53. Nature of God and the two biblical writers: Lester L. Grabbe, Ancient Israel 150–65. Finkelstein/Siblerman 110. Robin Lane Fox, Unauthorized Version 49–57, 57–70, 92, 182, 198–202. Wayne T. Pitard, ‘Before Israeclass="underline" Syria–Palestine in the Bronze Age’, in M. Coogan (ed.), Oxford History of the Biblical World (henceforth Oxford History) 25–9. Edward F. Campbell, ‘A Land Divided: Judah and Israel from Death of Solomon to the Fall of Samaria’, in Oxford History 209. Two sets of Ten Commandments: see Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. Two sackings of Shechem: Genesis 34 and Judges 9. Goliath two versions: 1 Samuel (henceforth S) 17 and 2 S 21.19. T. C. Mitchell, The Bible in the British Museum (henceforth BM), 14 Merneptah Stela. Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, ‘Tenth Century to 586 BC: House of the Lord (Beyt YHWH)’, in Sacred Esplanade 15–35. H. J. Franken, ‘Jerusalem in the Bronze Age’, in K. J. Asali (ed.), Jerusalem in History (henceforth Asali) 11–32.
4 Saul and David: 1 S 8–2 S 5. David and Goliath 1 S 17 and 2 S 21.19. Saul’s armour-bearer and lyre-player: 1 S 16.14–23. Anointed by Samueclass="underline" 1 S 16.1–13. Marries Saul’s daughter: 1 S 18.17–27. Ziklag: 1 S 27.6. Rule in Hebron: 2 S 5.5. Lament: 2 S 1.19–27; King of Judah: 2 S 2.4. David’s Philistine and Cretan guards: 2 S 8.18 and 1 Chronicles (henceforth C) 18.17. Ronald de Vaux, Ancient Israeclass="underline" Its Life and Institutions (henceforth de Vaux) 91–7. Slings: James K. Hoffmeier, Archaeology of the Bible (henceforth Hoffmeier) 84–5. Reich, Shukron and Lernau, ‘Findings from the Iron Age II in the Rock-Cut Pool near the Spring’, Israel Exploration Journal 57 (2007) 153–69.
5 2 S 6, 2 S 7.2–13. Takes Jerusalem: 2 S 5, 2 S 24.25, 2 S 5.6–9, 2 S 7.2–3, 2 S 6.13–18. Renames Jerusalem: 2 S 5.7–9 and 1 C 11.5–7. Builds walclass="underline" 2 S 5.9. Hurowitz, Sacred Esplanade 15–35. David’s palace and terraced structure: Dan Bahat, Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem (henceforth Bahat) 24. God and the Ark: de Vaux 294–300 and 308–10. Hurowitz, Sacred Esplanade 15–35.
6 2 S 6.20.
7 Bathsheba: 2 S 11–12.
8 Absalom and court politics: 2 S 13–24.
9 2 S 24.6 and 1 C 21.15. Abraham: Genesis 22, 1 Kings (henceforth K) 5.3. Threshing-floor and altar: 2 S 24.19–24, 1 C 21.28–22.5, 1 K 1. David bloodshedder: 1 C 22.8 and 28.3.
10 Death and Solomon anointment:1 K 1 and 2, 1 C 28–9. Buriaclass="underline" 1 K 2.10. Hurowitz, Sacred Esplanade 15–35. John Hyrcanus plunders David’s tomb: Josephus, ‘Jewish Antiquities’ (henceforth JA) VII.15.3.
11 Seizure of power: 1 K 1–2.
12 Solomon, chariots/horse-gate: 1 K 9–10, 2 K 11.16. Horse-dealing/chariots: 1 K 10.28–9. Gold: 1 K 10.14. Megiddo, Hazor, Gezer: 1 K 9.15. Ark installed and Temple inaugurated: 1 K 8 and 2 C 7. David’s spears in Temple: 2 K 11.10. Lane Fox, Unauthorized Version 134–40 and 191–5. 1 K 2–7 and 1 K 10. Horses, chariots, magnificence: 1 K 10.14–19. Gateways: 1 K 9.15–27. Fleet: 1 K 9: 26–8 and 1 K 10.11–13. Empire and administration: 1 K 4.17–19. Wives: 1 K 11.3. 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs: 1 K 4.32. With whips: 1 K 12.11. Temple and palace: 1 K 6–7, 2 C 2–4. Ezekiel 40–4. 1 C 28.11–19. The Rock tomb: Shanks 165–74. Carol Meyers, ‘Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy’, in Oxford History 197–203. Traditions of the rock: Rivka Gonen, ‘Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?’, Biblical Archaeology Review May–June 1985, 44–55. BM, lavers 45; Phoenician style 61. Trade with Hiram and Phoenicians/craftsmen/origin of Phoenicians/Temple designs and as ‘corporations’ with barbers, prostitutes: Richard Miles, Carthage Must be Destroyed 30–5. Israelites and Phoenicians, purple, alphabet: Miles, Ancient Worlds, 57–68. Temple as ‘site par excellence for divine–human communication’: A. Neuwirth, ‘Jerusalem in Islam: The Three Honorary Names of the City’, in Sylvia Auld and Robert Hillenbrand (eds), Ottoman Jerusalem: The Living City, 1517–1917 (henceforth OJ) 219. Hurowitz, Sacred Esplanade 15–35. Graeme Auld and Margreet Steiner, Jerusalem 1 54. Solomon and Pharaoh, spoils and daughter: 1 K 9.16. Pharaoh Siamun raid; daughter marriage: Wilkinson, Egypt 404. Tel Qasile potsherd on gold in Lane Fox, Unauthorized Version 235–40. De Vaux 31–7, 108–14, 223–4, 274–94. Grabbe, Ancient Israel 113–18. Ivory in Sargon’s Palace in Assyria and King Ahab in Samaria: 1 K 22.39. Phoenician/Syrian parallels: Shanks 123–34 and 165–74. Hurowitz, Sacred Esplanade 15–35. On archaeology: author conversations with Dan Bahat and Ronny Reich. New dating of Megiddo, Hazor, Gezer: Finkelstein/Silberman 134–41; Omrid building in Megiddo vs Solomon: Finkelstein/Silberman 180–5. Nicola Schreiber, Cypro-Phoenician Pottery of the Iron Age, on the chronology of Black-on-Red and its implications 83–213, especially Section I ‘10th Century and the Problem of Shishak’ 85–113. Ayelet Gilboa and Ilan Sharon, ‘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, November 2003, 7–80.
13 Israel breakaway: 1 K 11–14 Rehoboam. Kings of Israel Asa to Omri: 1 K 15–17 – Zimri’s massacre – pisseth against wall 1 K 16.11. Sheshonq (Shishak), attack on Jerusalem: Wilkinson, Egypt 405–9. Osorkon: Hoffmeier 107. Grabbe, Ancient Israel 81. Campbell, Oxford History 212–15. Meyers, Oxford History 175. De Vaux 230. Lane Fox, Unauthorized Version 260. Omrid vs Solomonic structures: Finkelstein/Silberman 180–5.
14 Ahab/Jehoshaphat: 1 K 15–18, 2 K 1–8. Jehoshaphat: I K 15–24 and 2 C 17–20. Finkelstein/Silberman 231–4. Jehu: 2 K 10.1–35. Tel Dan stele: Hoffmeier 87. Ahab vs Assyria/Shalmaneser Monolith inscription: Campbell, Oxford History 220–3. Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III: BM 49–54. Moabite Stone: BM 56.
15 Jehu: 2 K 9–11, 2 C 22. BM 49–56. Tel Dan inscription: Campbell, Oxford History 212. Athaliah: 2 K 11–12. Campbell, Oxford History 228–31. Reich, Shukron and Lernau, ‘Findings from the Iron Age II in the Rock-Cut Pool near the Spring’, Israel Exploration Journal 57 (2007) 153–69: Hurowitz, Sacred Esplanade 15–35. Uzziah/Jotham: 2 K 13–16. Expanding Jerusalem: 2 C 26.9. Fall of Israel/Jerusalem transformed: Finkelstein/Silberman 211–21, 243–8.
16 Ahaz and Isaiah – all references from Book of Isaiah: vision of Jerusalem as sinful nation 1.4; Jerusalem as woman-harlot 1.21 and mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem 10.32; Jerusalem as guide to nations 2.1–5; Zion in every place 4.5; God in temple 6.1–2; Ahaz 7; Emmanuel 8.8 and a child born 9.6–7; judgement and justice/wolf and lamb, guidance to gentiles 11.4–11; judgement day 26.1–2 and 14–19. Fall of Israeclass="underline" 2 K 15–17. Finkelstein/Silberman 211–21, 243–8. Jews of Iran: K. Farrokh, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War (henceforth Farrokh) 25–7. M. Cogan, ‘Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon’, in Oxford History 242–3. Campbell, Oxford History 236–9. Latest findings on Jewish genetics: ‘Studies Show Jews’ Genetic Similiarity’, New York Times 9 June 2010.