PRINCIPAL SOURCES AND WORKS OF REFERENCE
For the Excavations: R. A. S. Macalister, 'Reports on the Excavation of Gezer,' in the Quarterly Statements of the Palestine Exploration Fund (October 1902-October 1905; July 1907-July 1908); id., Bible Side-lights from the Mound of Gezer (London, 1906, numerous illustrations); Ernst Sellin, 'Tell Ta'annek,' in the Denkschriften of the Vienna Academy (1904-5); W. M. Flinders Petrie, Researches in Sinai (London, 1906); Hugues Vincent, Canaan d'après l'Exploration Recente (Paris, 1907; a valuable account, from the archæological standpoint, of the results of excavation contained in the above works and elsewhere); G. Schumacher, Tell el-Mutesellim (Leipzig, 1908), vol. i., text and plates.
Evidence from Babylonian or Assyrian Texts: H. Winckler, The Tell-el-Amarna Tablets (London, 1896); new edition by J. A. Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna-Tafeln (Leipzig, 1907-8; Parts i.-x.); H. Zimmern, Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament (Berlin, 1903; pp. 345-643); A. Jeremias, Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients (Leipzig, 1906); M. Jastrow, Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens (Giessen, 1905—).
Egyptian Sources: W. M. Müller, Asien und Europa nach Alt-ägyptischen Denkmälern (Leipzig, 1893); J. H. Breasted, History of Egypt (London, 1906); id., Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents (1906-7); Zeitschrift fur Aegyptische Sprache, etc. etc.
Of general works, W. R. Smith, Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: the Fundamental Institutions (London, 1894), is naturally indispensable. Important, also, are G. A. Barton, A Sketch of Semitic Origins, Social and Religious (New York, 1902); Marie-Joseph Lagrange, Études sur les Religions Sémitiques (Paris, 1905); J. G. Frazer, Adonis, Attis, and Osiris: Studies in the History of Oriental Religion (London, 1907). For Modern Semitic Religion there is a large mass of scattered evidence; the most illuminating works are those of C. M. Doughty, Arabia Deserta (Cambridge, 1888); S. I. Curtiss, Primitive Semitic Religion To-day (London, 1902); A. Jaussen, Coutumes des Arabes au Pays de Moab (Paris, 1908). For the history of the period may be consulted the works of G. Maspero (Histoire Ancienne; Paris, 1904, etc.), or the popular account, with typical illustrations, by G. Cormack, History of Palestine in Early Times (forthcoming).
For those unacquainted with modern comparative study in the field of religion, one of the most serviceable introductory books is J. A. Macculloch's Comparative Theology (Churchman's Library, London, 1902).