[197] See Schumacher, Tell el-Mutesellim, 156, ff.

[198] In Gen. 22:9 Abraham, we are told, built the altar. He did not, therefore, intend to use the rock-altar. The analogy of this altar with the other two is not quite complete. It appears to have no cup-marks on its surface.

[199] See Bliss and Macalister, Excavations in Palestine, 1898-1900, p. 31, ff.

[200] See Macalister, The Excavation of Gezer, I, 51, 105-107; II, 381-404.

[201] See Part II, [p. 364].

[202] See C. H. Toy, Introduction to the History of Religions, Boston, 1913, §§ 250, 257.

[203] Tell Taanek, p. 68, ff.

[204] See Part II, [p. 442].

[205] For descriptions of this high place, see the article by its discoverer, George L. Robinson, in the Biblical World, XVII, 6-16; by S. I. Curtis in the Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, October, 1900, pp. 350-355; Savignac in Révue biblique, 1903, 280-284; Libby and Hoskins, The Jordan Valley and Petra, New York, 1905, II, 172, ff.; Brünnow and Domaszewski, Provincia Arabia, Vol. I, Strassburg, 1904, 239-245; Dalman, Petra, Leipzig, 1908, 56-58.

[206] See the writer’s A Year’s Wandering in Bible Lands, Philadelphia, 1904, pp. 193, 194.