Who were the Ammonites in the first millennium BCE?
- Jona Lendering, livius.org (2009), “Ammon (kingdom)”
- Megan Sauter, Bible History Daily (2016), “Who Were the Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites in the Bible?”
- Aurelie Jouvenel, Atlas of Jordan (2013), “The Iron Age and the Persian Period (1200-332 BC)”
- James Fisher, PhD Dissertation, Andrews University (1998), Ammon in the Hebrew Bible: A Textual Analysis and Archaeological Context of Selected References to the Ammonites of Transjordan
- Klaus Beyer, in Languages from the World of the Bible, ed. H. Gzella (2011), “The Languages of Transjordan [including Ammonite]”
Ammonite Religion
- Burton MacDonald and Randall Younker (eds.), excerpts from “The Religion of the Ammonites” from Ancient Ammon (1999)
- Saaeb Rawashdeh, The Jordan Times (2019), “Iron Age Ammonite Statue Says a lot about Religion, Influence by Egyptians, Assyrians.”
- Hershel Shanks, Biblical Archaeology Review (2014), “Human Sacrifice to an Ammonite God?”
- Double-sided limestone and ivory head of a goddess, possibly from an Ammonite temple (also available in downloadable 3D file)
- Known members of the divine pantheon: Milkom (also Milcom, possibly Molech; M); Baal (M); Ashtart (also Astarte; F)
Ammonite Archaeology and Inscriptions
- Craig Tyson (2014), “The Archaeology of the Amman Plateau” in The Ammonites: Elites, Empires, and Sociopolitical Change (1000-500 BCE)
- The Amman Citadel Inscription (West Semitic Research Project)
- The Tell Siran bottle inscription (livius.org)
- E.J. Smit, Journal for Semitics 1989, “The Tell Siran Inscription: Linguistic and Historical Implications”
- Selected Archaeological Sites: Tall Jalul, Tall Jawa, Rabbah / Rabbath Ammon / Amman / Jabal al-Qal’a, Tell Siran
Gods of the Biblical World 