Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions

G. I. Davies (Editor)

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Author
G. I. Davies (Editor)
Publish Date
1991-10-10
Subtitle
Corpus and Concordance
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
535
Publisher Name
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521402484
ISBN-13
9780521402484
citemno
121469
SKU
9780521402484

Description

The inscriptions dealt with in this book come from the Old Testament period (c. 1000 BCE to c. 200 BCE) and constitute an important additional source for our knowledge of the Hebrew language and the religion, history and customs of ancient Israel. The corpus includes texts such as the Lachish and Arad letters, the Siloam tunnel inscription, the recently discovered religious texts from Kuntillet Ajerud, and the hundreds of seals, seal impressions and weights that are now known. No such comprehensive edition has been published for over fifty years and the concordance is the first to be produced for this body of texts. It covers all complete words in the texts (including prepositions and names of persons and places), and also the Egyptian hieratic numerals and other symbols that were used in them.