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Subject(s)

• Bible Old Testament—Antiquities [Browse]
• Material culture—Middle East [Browse]
• Material culture—Religious aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Lubetski, Meir [Browse]
• Lubetski, Edith [Browse]

Series

• Hebrew Bible monographs ; 98. [More in this series]
• Hebrew Bible monographs ; 98 [More in this series]

Summary note

"The study of the Bible has long been illuminated by 'light from the East' (in the famous phrase of Adolf Deissmann in 1908). Almost daily, new artifacts and inscriptions are announced that will have an impact on how the Bible is read and understood. Following Meir Lubetski's Sheffield Phoenix Press collection 'New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean and Cuneiform' in 2007 and his Festschrift, 'Visions of Life in Biblical Times' in 2015, the present volume garners papers from a wide and distinguished panel of specialists in the Ancient Near East that revisit former assumptions and present new insights on the relevance of its material culture to the Bible. Among the papers, Alan Millard reviews the issue of the use of the early alphabets, André Lemaire revisits the Mesha stele (the Moabite Stone), and Pieter Gert van der Veen takes a fresh look at the seal of Shema with its famous lion (still adorning the cover of the 'Journal for the Study of the Old Testament'). Bezalel Porten contributes a fascinating study, illustrated by twenty colour diagrams, of documents on papyrus or ostraca requesting provisions from storerooms-an insight into the practicalities of daily administrative life in Egypt, Idumea and Israel. There are papers also on the arks of the Hebrew Bible (Yigal Levin), on alleged identifications of Hebrew kings in inscriptions (Lawrence Mykytiuk), on literary images in the Tell Fekheriye inscription and the book of Lamentations (Gideon Kotzé) and on Judaean pillar figurines of women that are ubiquitous in archaeological excavations from Iron Age Judah. 'Epigraphy, Iconography, and the Bible', in sum, is something of a cornucopia of new and revised data about the Hebrew Bible in its ancient context, intelligible to scholars, students and a more general public alike."--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language note

English texts, with passages in Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek with parallel English translations from the Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek.

Contents

• Preface
• The uses of the early alphabets : a reprise / Alan Millard
• The Mesha Stele : revisited text and interpretation / André Lemaire
• One ark, two arks, three arks, more? : the many arks of early Israel / Yigal Levin
• Gideon's two-part tests as signs of assurance (Judges 6.36-40) / David Marcus
• An additional fiscal bulla from the city of David / Gabriel Barkay, Robert Deutsch
• Comparable literary images in the Tell Fekheriye inscription and Lamentations 4 / Gideon R. Kotzé
• Don't pave the way for circular reasoning! : a better way to identify the two deceased Hebrew kings in the Tel Dan Stele / Lawrence J. Mykytiuk
• Interpreting iconography : a polysemic and multivalent approach to understanding Judean pillar figurines / Shawna Dolansky
• Iconography on Hebrew seals and bullae identifying Biblical persons and the apparent paradox of Egyptian solar symbols / Benjamin Stanhope
• Dating the Shema seal and its find-context at Megiddo : a fresh look at the evidence / Pieter Gert van der Veen
• Who is inscribed on Ostracon #52 of Arad? / Meir Lubetski
• Post-exilic history and archaeology and the formation of Biblical literature / Torleif Elgvin
• Christian adaptations of Saadiah's Tafsīr in Egypt in the Middle Ages / Ibrahim Bassal
• Thirty-four payment orders from the dossier of Yaddu / Bezalel Porten.

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ISBN

• 9781914490026
• 1914490029 ((hardback))

OCLC

1291697920

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