December 2025
This page contains the bibliography related to the Tell en-Nasbeh excavations, current to the above date, and running now to 183 citations. I hope that this will be a useful service to mycolleagues who need data on the Tell en-Nasbeh excavations. Moreover, I hope my efforts will provide encouragement to other excavations and scholars to put their own site bibliographies on line for the benefit of all.
The accompanying chart documents the history of publications related to Tell en-Nasbeh. The vertical axis shows the number of pubplications while the horizontal axis shows 10-year intervals. For example, 45 publications related to the site appeared in the ten years from 1926 to 1936. The chart does not include the reviews of the final report that were published between 1947-1948. Clearly the period during which the site was being excavated and before W. F. Badè’s death in 1936 was a high point in the site’s publication history. After that publications petered out until they began to rise again in the 1990s as interest in the site picked up again.
Tell en-Nasbeh Bibliography in Word .docx format
“The Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh.” 1929.Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 35: 24-25. https://doi.org/10.2307/1355083
“Tell en-Nasbeh.” 1929.Syria 10(1): 81.
“Excavations in Palestine 1931-1932: Tell en-Nasba.” 1932.The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 2: 184-94.
“Archaeological Work in Palestine and Syria during 1932.” 1933.Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 49: 15-19. https://doi.org/10.2307/1354948
“Chickens Were Known in Old Testament Days, Art Reveals.” 1934.The Science News-Letter 25(675): 167.
“Fingerprints on Pottery Aid in Tracing Past.” 1934.The Science News-Letter 26(707): 260-61.
“Cave Found in Bible City Recalls Burial of Sarah.” 1935.The Science News-Letter 27(738): 349-50.
“Excavations in Palestine 1934-1935: Tell en-Naṣbe.” 1936.The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 5: 209-10.
“The Badè Memorial for Biblical Archaeology.” 1942.Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 85: 1-3. https://doi.org/10.2307/1355049
“‘King of the World’ Unknown for 2500 Years.” 1943.The Science News-Letter 43(2): 24-25.
“Tell en-Naṣbeh.” 1947.Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 107: 17. https://doi.org/10.2307/1355835
Abu Khalaf, Marwan, Ibrahim Abu A‘mar, Salah Al-Houdalieh, and Robert Hoyland. 2006. “The Byzantine and Early Islamic settlement of Khirbat Shuwayka.” Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony, 1.2 http://www.webjournal.unior.it/Dati/18/55/3.%20Palestina,%20Abu%20Khalaf.pdf
Albright, William F. 1923. “The Site of Mizpah of Benjamin.” Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 3: 110-21.
———. 1926. “Report of the Director of the School in Jerusalem.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 24: 9-17. https://doi.org/10.1086/BASOR1354750
———. 1928. “Archaeological News: Letter from the School in Jerusalem.” American Journal of Archaeology 32(1): 117-21. https://doi.org/10.2307/497591
———. 1932. “Review of Some Tombs of Tell en-Nasbeh Discovered in 1929 by William F. Badè.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 52(1): 52-52.
———. 1936. “Archaeological Exploration and Excavation in Palestine and Syria, 1935.” American Journal of Archaeology 40(1): 154-67. https://doi.org/10.2307/498307
———. 1936. “William Frederick Badè (Jan. 22, 1871-March 4, 1936).” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 62: 4-5. https://doi.org/10.1086/BASOR1355489
———. 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(3): 202-05. https://doi.org/10.1086/370880
Arnold, Patrick. M. 1992. “Mizpah.” In Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by David N. Freedman, 879-81. New York: Doubleday.
Avigad, Nahman. 1958. “New Light on the MSH Impressions.” Israel Exploration Journal 8: 113-19.
Badè, William F. 1926. Excavating a Buried City. Berkeley: n. p.
———. 1927. “Excavation of Tell en-Nasbeh.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 26: 1-7. https://doi.org/10.2307/1354936
———. 1927. “The Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh.” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 59(1): 7-13. https://doi.org/10.1179/peq.1927.59.1.7
———. 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): 3-12.
———. 1930. “The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations of 1929, A Preliminary Report.” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 62(1): 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1179/peq.1930.62.1.8
———. 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. “Ceramics and History in Palestine.” Journal of Biblical Literature 50(2): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.2307/3259557
———. 1931. Some Tombs of Tell en-Nasbeh Discovered in 1929, Palestine Institute Publications 2. Berkeley.
———. 1932. “Mitteilungen: A Jar Handle from Tell en-Nasbeh.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 50: 89-90. https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.1932.50.1.86
———. 1933. “The Seal of Jaazaniah.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 51: 150-56. https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.1933.51.1.150
———. 1934. A Manual of Excavation in the Near East: Methods of Digging and Recording of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Expedition in Palestine. 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 edited by Paul Volz, Friedrich Stummer and Johannes Hempel. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 66. Berlin: A. Töpelmann. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325407-005
Balcells, Jose E. 2015. “Household and Family Religion in Persian Period Judah: An Archaeological Approach.” Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate Theological Union.
Ben-Shlomo, David. 2021. “Petrographic Analysis of Iron Age Pottery from Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Judea and Samaria Research Studies 30(2): *57-*87. https://doi.org/10.26351/JSRS/30-2/6
———. 2025. “Compositional Analysis of Cultic Clay Objects from the Iron Age Southern Levant.” Religions 16(6): 661. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16060661
Ben-Shlomo, David, and Lauren K. McCormick. 2021. “Judean Pillar Figurines and “Bed Models” from Tell en-Naṣbeh: Typology and Petrographic Analysis.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 386: 23-46. https://doi.org/10.1086/715040
Ben-Shlomo, David, Hans Mommsen, and Johannes H. Sterba. 2021. “Back to Naṣbeh: New Compositional Analysis of Philistine Bichrome Pottery from Tell en‐Naṣbeh.” Archaeometry 63(4): 705-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12643
Bothmer, Dietrich von. 1941. “Greek Pottery from Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 83: 25-30. https://doi.org/10.2307/3218741
Boutin, Alexis T., Whitney R. McClellan, and Daniel A. Cusimano. 2014. “Life and Death at Tell en-Naṣbeh: A Bioarchaeological Analysis.” Pp. 31-58 in “As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah …”: The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years, edited by Jeffrey R. Zorn and A. J. Brody. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
Branigan, Keith. 1966. “The Four-Room Buildings of Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Israel Exploration Journal 16(3): 206-08.
Brody, Aaron. 2020. ““For the Wealth of the Sea Will Pass on to You”: Changes in Patterns of Trade from Southern Phoenicia to Northern Judah in the Late Iron Age and Persian Periods.” Pp. 69-80 in Nomads of the Mediterranean: Trade and Contact in the Bronze and Iron Ages – Studies in Honor of Micahl Artzy, edited by Ayelet Gilboa and Assaf Yasur-Landau. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 112. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004430112_007
Brody, A. 2023. “The Judahite Economy in First Temple Times: Remodeling the Houseof David—A Case Study from Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Pp. 251-62 in The Ancient Israelite World, edited by Kyle H. Keimer and George A.Pierce. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.
———. 2025. “Ancient Judah’s Grateful Dead.” Biblical Archaeology Review 51(3): 28-29.
Brody, Aaron J. 2009. “Mizpah, Mizpeh.” Pp. 116-17 in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Me-R, edited by K. D. Sakenfeld. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.
———. 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, edited by J. David. 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, edited by Assaf Yasur-Landau, Jennie R. Ebeling and Laura B. Mazow. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 50. Leiden & Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004206250.i-452.71
———. 2011. “Mastering the Museum Makeover.” Biblical Archaeology Review 37(1): 28.
———. 2014. “Interregional Interaction in the Late Iron Age: Phoenician and Other Foreign Goods from Tell en-Nasbeh.” Pp. 53-68 in Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin, edited by J. R. Spencer, A. J. Brody and R. A. Mullins. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
———. 2014. “Judean Identity in an Era of Empire: Archaeological Approaches from Iron II Tell en-Nasbeh.” Pp. 1-18 in Reading a Tendentious Bible, Essays in Honor of Robert B. Coote, edited by M. L. Chaney, U. Y. Kim and A. Schellenberg. Hebrew Bible Monographs 66. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
———. 2014. “Memories from Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Pp. 23-30 in “As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah …”: The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years, edited by Jeffrey R. Zorn and A. J. Brody. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
———. 2014. “Phoenician Imports to Tell en-Nasbeh: Indicators for Interregional Interaction in the Iron IIB-IIC Southern Levant.” Pp. 135-44 in Les Produits de luxe au Proche-Orient ancien aux âges du Bronze et du Fer, edited by M. Casanova and M. H. Feldman. Travaux de la Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie, René-Ginouvès 19. Paris: Editions de Boccard.
———. 2014. “Transjordanian Commerce with Northern Judah in the Iron IIC-Persian period: Ceramic Indicators, Interregional Interaction, and Modes of Exchange at Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Pp. 59-93 in “As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah …”: The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years, edited by Jeffrey R. Zorn and A. J. Brody. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
———. 2015. “Living in Households, Constructing Identities: Ethnicity, Boundaries, and Empire in Iron IIB-IIC Tell en-Nasbeh.” Pp. 289-305 in Household Studies in Complex Societies – (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches: Papers from the Oriental Institute Seminar Household Studies in Complex Societies, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 15-16 March 2013, edited by M. Müller. Oriental Institute Seminars 10. Chicago: University of Chicago.
———. 2017. “Should We Repatriate an On-Campus Archaeological Collection from the Middle East?” Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 5(1): 69-75. https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.5.1.0069
———. 2018. “Materiality of Religion in Judean Households: A Contextual Analysis of Ritual Objects from Iron II Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Near Eastern Archaeology 81(3): 212-21. https://doi.org/10.5615/neareastarch.81.3.0212
———. 2024. “Coastal Objects from Persion Period Tell en-Nabeh in Judah: Phoeician Interconnectivity with the Achaemind Province of Yehud.” Revista di Studi Fenici 52: 11-23. https://doi.org/10.19282/rsf.52.2024.02
Brody, Aaron J., and Elizabeth Friedman. 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 of Marvin L. Chaney, edited by Robert B. Coote and Norman K. Gottwald. The Social World of Biblical Antiquity, Second Series 3. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
Broshi, Magen. 1977. “Naṣbeh, Tell-en.” Pp. 912-16, 17 in Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, edited by Michael Avi-Yonah and Ephraim Stern. Jerusalem: Massada Press.
———. 1992. “Naṣbeh, Tell en-.” Pp. 1027-29 in Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by David N. Freedman. New York: Doubleday.
Brown, Stephanie 2014. “Iron in the Iron Age: Iron Agricultural Implements from Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Pp. 95-122 in “As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah …”: The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years, edited by Jeffrey R. Zorn and Aaron J. Brody. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
Burrows, Millar. 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.” The Journal of Religion 15(3): 349. https://doi.org/10.1086/481643
Cradic, Melissa, and Samuel Pfister. “Unsilencing the Archives: The Laborers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926-1935).” ArcGIS StoryMaps, https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/dc601d4d131145f88f828196860b8a44
Cradic, Melissa S., and Samuel D. Pfister. In press. “Unsilencing the Archives: The Laborers of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Excavations (1926–1935).” in Unsilencing the Archives, edited by Aaron. J. Brody, Melissa S.Cradic, Samuel D. Pfister, Felicity Cobbing, Helen Dixon and Jeffrey R. Zorn. Alexandria, VA: American Society of Overseas Research.
Cross, Frank M. 1969. “Two Notes on Palestinian Inscriptions of the Persian Age.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 193: 19-24. https://doi.org/10.2307/1356147
Dalley, Stephanie. 2013. “Gods from North-eastern and North-western Arabia in Cuneiform Texts from the First Sealand Dynasty, and a Cuneiform Inscription from Tell en-Naṣbeh, c.1500 BC.” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 24(2): 177-85. https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12005
Diringer, David. 1967. “Mizpah.” Pp. 309-28 in Archaeology and Old Testament Study, edited by David W. Thomas. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Dougherty, Raymond P. 1929. “Review of Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh, 1926 and 1927. A Preliminary Report by William Frederic Badè.” American Journal of Archaeology 33(3): 455. https://doi.org/10.2307/498366
Duncan, George 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(1): 61-62.
Dussaud, René 1932. “Review of Some Tombs of Tell en-Nasbeh Discovered in 1929. A Special Report by William Frederic Badè.” Syria 13(2): 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(4): 409.
Edelman, Diana. 2006. “The Function of the mw(ṣ)h-Stamped Jars Revisited.” Pp. 659-71 in “I Will Speak the Riddle of Ancient Times”: Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, edited by A. M. Mazar and P. de Miroschedji. Winona Lake, IN: Esienbrauns.
Fabrikant, Geraldine. 2014. “Biblical-Era Collections Suffer in a New World of Archaeology.” New York TImes October 23. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/arts/artsspecial/biblical-era-collections-suffer-in-a-new-world-of-archaeology.html
Finkelstein, Israel. 2012. “The Great Wall of Tell en-Nasbeh (Mizpah), The First Fortifications in Judah, and 1 Kings 15:16-22 ” Vetus Testamentum 62(1): 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853311X580671
Foster, Catherine P. Digging Up a Buried Town: The Excavations of Tell en-Nasbeh. Berkeley: Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology, 2009. DVD.
———. 2013. “Beyond the Display Case: Creating a Multisensory Museum Experience.” Pp. 371–89 in Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology, edited by Jo Day. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University.
———. 2014. “Curating Badè’s Legacy: Management of the Tell en-Naṣbeh Collection.” Pp. 123-44 in “As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah …”: The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years, edited by Jeffrey R. Zorn and A. J. Brody. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
Friedman, Elizabeth S., Aaron J. Brody, Marcus L. Young, Jon D. Almer, Carlo U. Segre, and Susan M. Mini. 2008. “Synchrotron Radiation-based X-ray Analysis of Bronze Artifacts from an Iron Age Site in the Judean Hills.” Journal of Archaeological Science 35(7): 1951-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.12.006
Garfinkel, Yosef. 2023. “Early City Planning in the Kingdom of Judah: Khirbet Qeiyafa, Beth Shemesh 4, Tell en-Naṣbeh, Khirbet ed-Dawwara, and Lachish V.” Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology 4: 87-107. https://doi.org/10.52486/01.00004.4
Ginsberg, Harold L. 1948. “MMšT and MṢH.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 109: 20-22. https://doi.org/10.2307/1355843
Glueck, Nelson. 1933. “Palestinian and Syrian Archaeology in 1932.” American Journal of Archaeology 37(1): 160-72. https://doi.org/10.2307/498047
———. 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(1): 89-90. https://doi.org/10.2307/1452594
Grant, Elihu. 1927. “Tell en-Nasbeh Expedition of the Pacific School of Religion.” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 59(3): 159-61. https://doi.org/10.1179/peq.1927.59.3.159
———. 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(2): 273-74. https://doi.org/10.2307/498483
Gunneweg, Jan, Frank Asaro, Helen V. Michel, and Isadore Perlman. 1994. “Interregional Contacts between Tell en-Nasbeh and Littoral Philistine Centres in Canaan during Early Iron I.” Archaeometry 36(2): 227-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.1994.tb00966.x
Heffner, Edward H. 1927. “Archaeological News – Excavatios of Tell en-Nasbeh.” American Journal of Archaeology 31(3): 362. https://doi.org/10.2307/497826
———. 1927. “Archaeological News – Tell en-Nasbeh.” American Journal of Archaeology 31(1): 103. https://doi.org/10.2307/497618
———. 1928. “Archaeological News – Tell en-Nasbeh.” American Journal of Archaeology 32(1): 75-76. https://doi.org/10.2307/497591
———. 1929. “Archaeological News – Tell en-Nasbeh.” American Journal of Archaeology 33(3): 411-12. https://doi.org/10.2307/498359
———. 1930. “Archaeological News – Tell en-Nasbeh.” American Journal of Archaeology 34(1): 71-72. https://doi.org/10.2307/498737
———. 1931. “Archaeological News – Tell en-Nasbeh.” American Journal of Archaeology 35(1): 71. https://doi.org/10.2307/498878
Hempel, Johannes. 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. https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.1948.61.1.231
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Hunter, Stanley Armstrong. 1940. “The Archaeological Exhibit.” Pp. 26-35 in Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. San Francisco: Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace.
Katz, Haya. 1998. “A Note on the Date of the ‘Great Wall’ of Tell en-Naṣbeh ” Tel Aviv 25(1): 131-33. https://doi.org/10.1179/tav.1998.1998.1.131
Keimer, Kyle H. 2020. “Ritual or Military Action: Interpreting Israel’s Muster at Mizpah in 1 Sam 7:2-17.” Vetus Testamentum 70(4-5): 620-33. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12341411
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Larkum, Mary. 2014. “‘Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!’ (Gen 25:30): Preliminary Insights into Iron Age Cooking Practices at Tell en-Naṣbeh Resulting from Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Analyses.” Pp. 145-73 in “As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah …”: The Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations after 85 Years, edited by Jeffrey R. Zorn and A. J. Brody. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
Lipschits, Oded, and David S. Vanderhooft. 2011. The Yehud Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
Masterman, Ernest W. G. 1929. “Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh, 1926-7.” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 61(1): 56-57. https://doi.org/10.1179/peq.1929.61.1.56
May, Herbert 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(2): 134-35. https://doi.org/10.1086/483695
McClellan, Thomas L. 1975. “Quantitative Studies in Iron Age Pottery of Palestine.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
———. 1984. “Town Planning at Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 100: 53-69.
McCown, Chester C. 1929. “Letter from Director McCown.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 35: 14-15, 18. https://doi.org/10.2307/1355077
———. 1930. “News Items from Jerusalem: Palestinian Archaeology in 1929 – Tell en-Nasbeh.” American Journal of Archaeology 34(1): 93-94. https://doi.org/10.2307/498737
———. 1930. “Palestinian Archaeology in 1929.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 37: 2-20. https://doi.org/10.2307/1355348
———. 1945. “The Long-Room House at Tell en-Naṣbeh.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 98: 2-15. https://doi.org/10.2307/1355244
———. 1947. Tell en-Naṣbeh: Excavated under the Direction of the Late William Frederic Badè, Vol. I: Archaeological and Historical Results. Berkeley and New Haven: Palestine Institute of Pacific School of Religion and American Schools of Oriental Research.
———. 1950. “Hebrew High Places and Cult Remains.” Journal of Biblical Literature 69(3): 205-19. https://doi.org/10.2307/3261643
Montgomery, James 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(3): 511-12. https://doi.org/10.2307/498963
Muilenburg, James. 1954-55. “Mizpah of Benjamin.” Studia Theologica 8: 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393385408599747
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Naish, John. P. 1932. “Tell en-Nasbeh.” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 64(4): 204-09. https://doi.org/10.1179/peq.1932.64.4.204
Perkins, Ann 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(4): 196-99. https://doi.org/10.2307/595947
Pfister, Samuel, Jessica Johnson, Melissa Cradic, Brooke Norton, and Aaron J. Brody. “Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town.” ArcGIS StoryMaps, https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0d0e88d8968044128021d71b1ef8e76e
Phythian-Adams, Wiliam J. 1923. “The Mizpah of 1 Samuel 7.5 etc.” Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 3: 13-20.
Pioske, Daniel. 2014. “Mizpah and the Possibilities of Forgetting.” Pp. 245-56 in Memory and the City in Ancient Israel, edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
Roberts Jr., Frank 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(4): 692-94. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1935.37.4.02a00220
Robinson, David M. 1933. “Archaeological News and Discussions: Excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh.” American Journal of Archaeology 37(1): 124. https://doi.org/10.2307/498046
———. 1936. “Archaeological News and Discussions: Necrology – William Frederic Badè.” American Journal of Archaeology 40(2): 247. https://doi.org/10.2307/498480
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