You are hereHomeBARMay/June 1994What’s a Bamah? How Sacred Space Functioned in Ancient Israel Letter 18 from the Elyashib archive, which mentions byt yhwh (the house/temple of Yahweh), refers to the sanctuary at Arad rather than the Jerusalem Temple. See David Ussishkin, “The Date of the Judaean Shrine at Arad,” IEJ 38/3 (1988), p. 155. Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.
