- Aharoni, Y. Excavations at Ramat Rachel - Seasons 1959-1960. University of Rome, Rome (1962); Seasons 1961-1962. (1964).
- Morin, R. Creative preservation. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 3 (4) (1999) 191–201.
- Geva, S. Biblical archaeology in its first steps. Zmanim 42 (1992) 93-102. Geva suggests that Aharoni's famous personal rivalry with Yadin (uncontested leader of this trend of ‘state biblical archaeology’) had a deeper methodological basis. At Ramat Rachel, Aharoni put aside his earlier broad survey approach and, backed up by direct correspondence (unpublished) with Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, instead focused on a large-scale test excavation of an Israelite palace, similar to what Yadin had done in his archaeological activity. Thus, theoretically, Ramat Rachel could be seen as a typical case of Geva's ‘root supplying’ archaeology, although in practice things are not so evident. Aharoni's German-Jewish punctiliousness and professionalism (often confirmed by his Italian collaborators) and the high-level international crew at the site mean that his excavations and assumptions were scientifically well founded.
- Finkelstein, I. and Silberman, N. A. The Bible Unearthed. Free Press, New York (2001). In this light, one may compare Aharoni's much contested identification of the Iron Age citadel at Ramat Rachel with the palace of Jehoiakim, based on a passage in Jeremiah 22: 13–19.
- The soil stabilizer was mixed in a 15cm-thick layer ofloose local earth (some added from the nearby excavations) and compressed to form a solid uniform water-resistant/weed-resistant surface, resembling in colour the local chalky earth (and not a type of pavement).
- Shiloh, Y. The Proto-aeolic Capital and Israelite Ashlar Masonry. Qedem 11, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (1979). The installation is much less a ‘sculpture’ than the ‘Hypothetical Ruins’ and much closer in nature to the explanatory signs.
- See note[2].
- Morin, R. The Archaeological Garden at Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem. Qedem 11, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (2002).
- According to Dr G. Avni of the Israel AntiquitiesAuthority. Personal communication, October 1997.
- Silberman, N. ‘From Masada to the Little Bighorn’, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 3 (1) (1999). ‘The real meaning of our modern archaeological stories and reconstructions, I would argue, is directed less toward our remote ancestors or the general public than towards the previous tellers of the same tale.’ (p. 14)
- Diderot, D. Salons III: Salons de 1767. Ed. Seznec, J. and Adhémar, J. Oxford, Clarendon Press (1983) 227.
- The excavations (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010) will be led by Dr Oded Lipschits of the Tel Aviv University and by Prof. Manfred Oeming of the University of Heidelberg, experts in the Persian and Assyrian periods.
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