12 ISRAel FINkelSTeIN Mizpah of Gilead was sought by some scholars at the village of Sūf (G.R. 229 191) 45 seven km to the northwest of Jaresh and by others at Tell el-Maṣfā, ca. two km to the north of this village (G.R. 227 193) 46. This small site, which may preserve the ancient name, is located on a high hill near the northwestern sector of the territory of Ammon. It is one of the highest mounds in the levant (ca. 1100 m above sea level). Dieter Vieweger visited the site in 2011 and observed Bronze and Iron Age sherds (personal communication). Though the site is small, it seems appropriate for the location of Mizpah. The setting on a high, dominating mountain fits the name; a high mountain seen from afar is a proper location for a story about a cairn that marks the boundary between Israelite and Aramean populations in northern Transjordan; it is situated not a great distance from the northwestern border of the kingdom of Ammon and hence suits the logic of the Jephthah story. 4. Land of Tob except for the references in the Jephthah narrative, the land of Tob appears only once in the Bible and contemporary sources: When the Ammonites saw that they had become odious to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians [Aram] of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians [Aram] of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Ma‘acah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men [...]. And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate; and the Syrians [Aram] of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Ma‘acah, were by themselves in the open country (2 Sam 10,6.8). These verses describe the allies of Ammon against David — all locat- ed to the north of Ammon 47. A place named t-b-y is referred to in the Jacob Narrative”, ZAW 126 (2014) 317-338. Note the distinction between Mizpah of Gilead and a place in the Gilead named Ramath-mizpeh (Josh 13,26). Without the second component the former should be referred to as Mizpah, while the latter was probably referred to as Ramah/Ramoth (FINkelSTeIN – kOch – lIPSchITS, “The Biblical Gilead”). 45 P.M. ARNOlD, “Mizpah (Place)”, ABD 4 (1992) 879-881, here 881; S. MITTMANN, Beiträge zur Siedlungs- und Territorialgeschichte des nördlichen Ostjordanlandes (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästinavereins 2; Wiesbaden 1970) 95, reports Iron I pottery there. 46 c. STeueRNAGel, “Der ‘Adschlūn nach den Aufzeichnungen von Dr. G. Schumacher”, ZDPV 48 (1925) 201-392; A. leMAIRe, “Galaad et Makîr: Remar- ques sur la Tribu de Manassé à l’est du Jourdain”, VT 31 (1981) 39-61, here 44. 47 For the possibility that the original source/memory referred to Rehob in the