Tell en-Nasbeh Bibliography
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The Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh.

  1929  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 35: 24-25.

Tell en-Nasbeh.

  1929  Syria 10: 81.

Archaeological Work in Palestine and Syria during 1932.

  1933  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 49: 15-19.

Fingerprints on Pottery Aid in Tracing Past.

  1934  The Science News-Letter 26: 260-61.

Chickens Were Known in Old Testament Days, Art Reveals.

  1934  The Science News-Letter 25: 167.

Cave Found in Bible City Recalls Burial of Sarah.

  1935  The Science News-Letter 27: 349-50.

The Badè Memorial for Biblical Archaeology.

  1942  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 85: 1-3.

"King of the World" Unknown for 2500 Years.

  1943  The Science News-Letter 43: 24-25.

Tell en-Naṣbeh.

  1947  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 107: 17.

Albright, W. F.

  1926  Report of the Director of the School in Jerusalem. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 24.

  1929  Letter from the School in Jerusalem. American Journal of Archaeology 32: 117-21.

  1932  Review of Some Tombs of Tell en-Nasbeh Discovered in 1929 by William F. Badè. Journal of the American Oriental Society 52: 52-52.

  1936  William Frederick Badè (Jan. 22, 1871-March 4, 1936). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 62: 4-5.

  1936  Archaeological Exploration and Excavation in Palestine and Syria, 1935. American Journal of Archaeology 40: 154-67.

  1948  Review of Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of William Frederic Badè. Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results by Chester Charlton McCown; Vol. II, The Pottery by Joseph Carson Wampler. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 7.

Arnold, P. M.

  1992  Mizpah. Pp. 879-81 in Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. D. N. Freedman.  New York: Doubleday.

Avigad, N.

  1958  New Light on the MSH Impressions. Israel Exploration Journal 8.

Badè, W. F.

  1927  Excavation of Tell en-Nasbeh. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 26: 1-7.

  1927  The Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement: 7-13.

  1928  Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh, 1926 and 1927: A Preliminary Report. Palestine Institute Publications 1. Berkeley.

  1929  Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh. Revue biblique 38: 317-19.

  1929  Tell en-Nasbeh in 1929. Bulletin of Pacific School of Religion 8: 3-12.

  1930  The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations of 1929, A Preliminary Report. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement: 8-19.

  1930  The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations of 1929, A Preliminary Report. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: 483-94.

  1931  Some Tombs of Tell en-Nasbeh Discovered in 1929. Palestine Institute Publications 2. Berkeley.

  1931  Ceramics and History in Palestine. Journal of Biblical Literature 50: 1-19.

  1932  A Jar Handle from Tell en-Nasbeh. Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 50: 89-90.

  1932  Tall en Nasba. The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 2: 147, 92-93.

  1933  The Seal of Jaazaniah. Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 51: 150-56.

  1934  A Manual of Excavation in the Near East. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  1935  New Discoveries at Tell en-Nasbeh. Pp. 30-36 in Werden und Wesen des Alten Testaments: Vorträge gehalten auf der internationalen Tagung alttestamentlicher Forscher zu Göttingen vom 4.-10. September 1935 eds. Paul Volz; Friedrich Stummer; and J. Hempel.  Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 66.  Berlin: A. Töpelmann.

Bothmer, D. v.

  1941  Greek Pottery from Tell en-Naṣbeh. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 83: 25-30.

Branigan, K.

  1966  The Four-Room Buildings of Tell en-Naṣbeh. Israel Exploration Journal 16: 206-08.

Brody, A. J., and Friedman, E.

  2007  Bronze Bangles from Tell en Nasbeh: Cultural and Economic Observations on an Artifact Type from the Time of the Prophets. Pp. 97-114 in To Break Every Yoke: Essays in Honor or Marvin L. Chaney,  eds. Robert B. Coote and N. K. Gottwald.  The Social World of Biblical Antiquity, Second Series 3.  Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.

Brody, A. J.

  2009  'Those Who Add House to House': Household Archaeology and the Use of Domestic Space in an Iron II Residential Compound at Tell en-Naṣbeh. Pp. 45-56 in Exploring the Longue Durée: Essays in Honor of Lawrence E. Stager,  ed. J. D. Schloen.  Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

  2011  The Archaeology of the Extended Family: A Household Compound from Iron II Tell en-Naṣbeh. Pp. 237-54 in Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond,  eds. A. Yasur-Landau; J. R. Ebeling; and L. B. Mazow.  Leiden & Boston: Brill.

Broshi, M.

  1977  Naṣbeh, Tell-en. Pp. 912-16, 17 in Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, 3,  eds. M. Avi-Yonah and E. Stern.  Jerusalem: Massada Press.

  1992  Naṣbeh, Tell en-. Pp. 1027-29 in Anchor Bible Dictionary, 4,  ed. D. N. Freedman.  New York: Doubleday.

Burrows, M.

  1935  Review of A Manual of Excavation in the Near East. Methods of Digging and Recording of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Expedition in Palestine by William Frederic Badè. Journal of Biblical Literature 15: 349.

Cross, F. M.

  1969  Two Notes on Palestinian Inscriptions of the Persian Age. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 193: 19-24.

Diringer, D.

  1967  Mizpah. Pp. 309-28 in Archaeology and Old Testament Study,  ed. D. W. Thomas.  Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Dougherty, R. P.

  1929  Review of Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh, 1926 and 1927. A Preliminary Report by William Frederic Badè. American Journal of Archaeology 33: 455.

Duncan, G. S.

  1935  Review of A Manual of Excavation in the Near East. Methods of Digging and Recording of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Expedition in Palestine by William Frederic Badè. Journal of the National Association of Biblical Instructors 3: 61-62.

Dussaud, R.

  1932  Review of Some Tombs of Tell en-Nasbeh Discovered in 1929. A Special Report by William Frederic Badè. Syria 13: 214.

  1935  Review of A Manual of Excavation in the Near East. Methods of Digging and Recording of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Expedition in Palestine by William Frederic Badè. Syria 16: 409.

Finkelstein, I.

  2012  The Great Wall of Tell en-Nasbeh (Mizpah), The First Fortifications in Judah, and 1 Kings 15:16-22 Vetus Testamentum 62: 14-28.

Friedman, E. S.; Brody, A. J.; Young, M. L.; Almer, J. D.; Segre, C. U.; and Mini, S. M.

  2008  Synchrotron radiation-based x-ray analysis of bronze artifacts from an Iron Age site in the Judean Hills. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 1951-60.

Ginsberg, H. L.

  1948  MMšT and MṢH. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 109: 20-22.

Glueck, N.

  1933  Palestinian and Syrian Archaeology in 1932. American Journal of Archaeology 37: 160-72.

  1937  Review of A Manual of Excavation in the Near East. Methods of Digging and Recording of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Expedition in Palestine by William Frederic Badè. Jewish Quarterly Review 28: 89-90.

Grant, E.

  1927  Tell en-Nasbeh Expedition of the Pacific School of Religion. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement: 159-61.

  1936  Review of A Manual of Excavation in the Near East. Methods of Digging and Recording of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Expedition in Palestine by William Frederic Badè. American Journal of Archaeology 40: 273-74.

Gunneweg, J.; Asaro, F.; Michel, H. V.; and Perlman, I.

  1994  Interregional Contacts between Tell en-Nasbeh and Littoral Philistine Centres in Canaan during Early Iron I. Archaeometry 36: 227-40.

Heffner, E. H.

  1927  Archaeological News - Tell en-Nasbeh. American Journal of Archaeology 31: 103.

  1927  Archaeological News - Excavatios of Tell en-Nasbeh. American Journal of Archaeology 31: 362.

  1928  Archaeological News - Tell en-Nasbeh. American Journal of Archaeology 32: 75-76.

  1929  Archaeological News - Tell en-Nasbeh. American Journal of Archaeology 33: 411-12.

  1930  Archaeological News - Tell en-Nasbeh. American Journal of Archaeology 34: 71-72.

  1931  Archaeological News - Tell en-Nasbeh. American Journal of Archaeology 35: 71.

Hempel, J.

  1945-48         Review of W. F. Albright, The Excavations of Tell Beit Mirsim, Vol. III: The Iron Age. Tell en-Nasbeh excavated under the Direction of the late William Frederic Badè. I. Archaeological and Historical Results. II The Pottery. Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 61: 232-39.

Katz, H.

  1998  A Note on the Date of the 'Great Wall' of Tell en-Naṣbeh Tel Aviv 25: 131-33.

Kenyon, K. M.

  1950  Palestinian Excavations. Antiquity 24: 196-200.

Lipschits, O., and Vanderhooft, D. S.

  2011  The Yehud Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

Masterman, E. W. G.

  1929  Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh, 1926-7. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement: 56-57.

May, H. G.

  1948  Review of Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of William Frederic Badè. Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results by Chester Charlton McCown; Vol. II, The Pottery by Joseph Carson Wampler. Journal of Religion 28: 134-35.

McClellan, T. L.

  1984  Town Planning at Tell en-Naṣbeh. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 100: 53-69.

McCown, C. C.

  1929  Letter from Director McCown. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 35: 14-15, 18.

  1929  News Items from Jerusalem: Palestinian Archaeology in 1929 - Tell en-Nasbeh. American Journal of Archaeology 34: 93-94.

  1930  Palestinian Archaeology in 1929. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 37: 2-20.

  1945  The Long-Room House at Tell en-Naṣbeh. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 98: 2-15.

  1947  Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of the late William Frederic Badè Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results. Berkeley and New Haven: Pacific Institute of Pacific School of Religion and American Schools of Oriental Research.

  1950  Hebrew High Places and Cult Remains. Journal of Biblical Literature 63: 205-19.

Montgomery, J. A.

  1933  Review of Some Tombs of Tell en-Nasbeh Discovered in 1929, a Special Report by William Frederic Badè; The Citadel of Beth-Zur by Ovid Rogers Sellers. American Journal of Archaeology 37: 511-12.

Muilenburg, J.

  1954-55         Mizpah of Benjamin. Studia Theologica 8: 25-42.

Naish, J. P.

  1932  Tell en-Nasbeh. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement: 204-09.

Perkins, A. L.

  1948  Review of Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of William Frederic Badè. Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results by Chester Charlton McCown; Vol. II, The Pottery by Joseph Carson Wampler. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 68: 196-99.

Roberts Jr., F. H. H.

  1935  Review of A Manual of Excavation in the Near East. Methods of Digging and Recording of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Expedition in Palestine by William Frederic Badè. American Anthropologist 37: 692-94.

Robinson, D. M.

  1933  Archaeological News and Discussions: Excavations at Tel-en-Nasbeh. Journal of Archaeology 37: 124.

  1936  Archaeological News and Discussions: Necrology - William Frederic Badè. Journal of Archaeology 40: 247.

Sellers, O. R.

  1948  Review of Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of William Frederic Badè. Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results by Chester Charlton McCown; Vol. II, The Pottery by Joseph Carson Wampler. Journal of Biblical Literature 57.

Simons, J. J.

  1948  Review of Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of William Frederic Badè. Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results by Chester Charlton McCown; Vol. II, The Pottery by Joseph Carson Wampler. Bibliotheca Orientalis 7: 104-07.

Tufnell, O.

  1948  Review of Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of William Frederic Badè. Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results by Chester Charlton McCown; Vol. II, The Pottery by Joseph Carson Wampler. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: 145-50.

Vanderhooft, D., and Horowitz, W.

  2002  The Cuneiform Inscription from Tell en-Naṣbeh: The Demise of an Unknown King. Tel Aviv 29: 318-27.

Vincent, L. H.

  1948  Review of Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of William Frederic Badè. Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results by Chester Charlton McCown; Vol. II, The Pottery by Joseph Carson Wampler. Revue biblique 55: 287-97.

Wampler, J. C.

  1940  Triangular Impressed Design in Palestinian Pottery. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 80: 13-16.

  1941  Three Cistern Groups from Tell en-Naṣbeh. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 82: 25-43.

  1947  Tell en-Naṣbeh Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of the late William Frederic Badè Vol. II: The Pottery. Berkeley and New Haven: Pacific Institute of Pacific School of Religion and American Schools of Oriental Research.

Wright, G. E.

  1947  Tell en-Nasbeh. Biblical Archaeologist 10: 69-77.

  1948  Review of Tell en-Naṣbeh excavated under the direction of William Frederic Badè. Vol. I, Archaeological and Historical Results by Chester Charlton McCown; Vol. II, The Pottery by Joseph Carson Wampler. American Journal of Archaeology 52.

Zink, J. H.

  1966  Tell en-Nasbeh. Pp. 569-71 in The Biblical World.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

Zorn, J. R.

  1988  The Museum Trail: The Badè Institute of Biblical Archaeology. Biblical Archaeologist 51: 36-45.

  1988  William Frederic Badè. Biblical Archaeologist 51: 28-35.

  1990  Ascii-yahu son of Bit-el; Computerizing an Archaeological Data Base. Journal of the Association of Graduate Near Eastern Students 1: 55-59.

  1993  Mesopotamian-style Ceramic "Bathtub" Coffins from Tell en-Nasbeh. Tel Aviv 20: 216-24.

  1993  Naṣbeh, Tell en-. Pp. 1098-102 in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, ed. E. Stern.  Jerusalem: Carta.

  1993  Tell en-Nasbeh: A Re-evaluation of the Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Early Bronze Age, Iron Age and Later Periods. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California

  1994  Estimating the Population Size of Ancient Settlements: Methods, Problems, Solutions and a Case Study. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 295: 31-48.

  1994  Two Rosette Stamp Impressions from Tell en-Nasbeh. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 293: 81-82.

  1995  Scanning Pottery Profiles. Center for the Study of Architecture Newsletter 7: 7-9.

  1995  Three Cross-Shaped “Ṭet” Stamp Impressions from Tell en-Nasbeh. Tel Aviv 22: 98-106.

  1996  The Date of A Bronze Vase from Tell en-Naṣbeh. Tel Aviv 23: 209-12.

  1996  Tell en-Nasbeh: Ceramic Dating of Strata 1 through 5. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 303: 81-82.

  1997  A Legacy of Publication: William F. Badè and Tell en-Nasbeh. Biblical Archaeology Review 23.

  1997  An Inner and Outer Gate Complex at Tell en-Nasbeh. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 307: 53-66.

  1997  Badè, William F. P. 262 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Ancient Near East, ed. E. Meyers.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  1997  Mizpah: Newly Discovered Stratum Reveals Judah's other Capital. Biblical Archaeology Review 23: 28-38, 66.

  1997  Naṣbeh, Tell en-. Pp. 101-03 in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Ancient Near East, ed. E. Meyers.  Oxford Oxford University Press.

  1998  Indiana Zorn and the Web Site of Tell en-Nasbeh. Near Eastern Archaeology 61: 257.

  1998  The Dating of an Early Iron Age Kiln from Tell en-Nasbah. Levant 30: 199-202.

  1999  A Note on the Date of the ‘Great Wall’ of Tell en-Naṣbeh: A Rejoinder. Tel Aviv 26: 146-50.

  1999  This Old Site: Issues in the Reappraisal of Early Excavations. Pp. 59-70 in Archaeology's Publication Problem: Volume 2,  ed. H. Shanks.  Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society.

  2000  Mizpah. Pp. 908-09 in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, ed. D. N. Freedman.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

  2001  Wedge- and Circle-Impressed Pottery: An Arabian Connection. Pp. 689-98 in Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas. L. Esse ed. S. R. Wolff.  Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations 59.  Chicago: Oriental Institute.

  2003  Tell en-Naṣbeh and the Problem of the Material Culture of the 6th Century. Pp. 413-47 in Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period,  eds. O. Lipschits and J. Blenkinsopp.  Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

  2005  Mizpah. Pp. 701-05 in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, eds. B. T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVaristy Press.

  2008  Mizpah, Mizpah Wherefore Art Thou Mizpah? Tell en–Naṣbeh, Nebi Samwil and the Identification of a Biblical Site.  in BAR Web Extra http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/extra.asp?ArticleID=12&ParentArticleID=3.

Zorn, J. R., and Walsh, C.

  1998  New Insights from Old Wine Presses. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 130: 154-61.

Zorn, J. R.; Yellin, J.; and Hayes, J.

  1994  The m(w)ṣh Stamp Impressions and the Neo-Babylonian Period. Israel Exploration Journal 44: 161-83.