“…1 Namely, in two detailed archaeological reports (Garfinkel and Ganor 2009;Garfinkel, Ganor and Hasel 2014), in a Hebrew book that presents the excavation's results and the excavators' interpretation (Garfinkel, Ganor and Hasel 2012), in a book that carries the title Debating Khirbet Qeiyafa and presents the debate over the nature and political affiliation of the site and its excavators' viewpoint on all the disputed issues (Garfinkel, Kreimerman and Zilberg 2016), and in a series of articles in professional and semi-popular journals (Garfinkel and Ganor 2008;Garfinkel, Ganor and Hasel 2010;Garfinkel 2011: 50-53;Garfinkel and Kang 2011;Garfinkel et al 2012;2015b;Garfinkel, Ganor and Mumcuoglu 2015). 2 Maeir (2012a: 22-25), Faust (2013: 213-14), Mazar (2014: 361-64) and Pioske (2015) supported the identification of Khirbet Qeiyafa as a Judahite site. 2 JOURNAL OF HEBREW SCRIPTURES of the excavation through their own prism.…”