Abstract
I have often wondered why the Bible speaks with such vehemence of the "sins of Jeroboam." True, setting up the golden calf at Dan was sin enough to rouse the ire of the prophets and priests. But was that fact sufficient in itself to call for the continuous Biblical denunciations of Jeroboam throughout the history of the northern kingdom? Or perhaps there was more to it than just the setting up of the golden calf. This is one of the questions I am hoping to find an answer to before we finish our excavations at Tel Dan, where we have already been working for nine seasons.