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23 Finkelstein and Silberman, The Bible Unearthed, p. 63.



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24 Ibid.,'pp. 95—6.



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25 The Targums of Onkelos, Jonathan and Jerusalem refer to Kadesh-barnea as 
Rekem-Giah, «of the ravine». See Stanley, p. 94 n. 3.



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26 Nielsen, The site of the biblical Mount Sinai: A claim for Petra, p. 9, cf. 
the Targum of Deut. 1: 19.



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27 Rekem, or Rokan, was an ancient name for Petra, see Jerome, De hoc. Heb voc. 
Petra and Rekem, quoted in Stanley, p. 94 n. 3. See also Josephus, Antiquities 
of the Jews, IV, vii, 1, who states that Petra was called Arecem, after a 
Midianite king named Rekem. He says also that Mount Hor lay above Arke, i.e. 
Arecem, or Rekem.



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28 Browning, p. 114.



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29 Stanley, p. 94 n. 3, cf. Schwarz, pp. 23—4.



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30 Josephus, iy iv, 5.



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31 Ibid., IV, iv, 6.



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32 Ibid.



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33 Ibid., IV, iv, 7.



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34 Jerome, De hoc. Heb. Voc. Petra and Rekem, as quoted in Stanley, p. 94 n. 3 
& 4.



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