Biblical Archaeology Review
Biblical Archaeology Review is the flagship publication of the Biblical Archaeology Society. For more than 40 years it has been making the world of archaeology in the lands of the Bible come alive for the interested layperson. Full of vivid images and articles written by leading scholars, this is a must read for anyone interested in the archaeology of the ancient Near East.
Endnote 1 - A Very Brief History of Old Hebrew Script
Translations are taken from Shmuel Aḥituv, Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period (Jerusalem: Carta, 2008). The orthography of personal names has been simplified. For a beautiful introduction to Old Hebrew inscriptions, see the last book by the late, renowned paleographer Ada Yardeni, The National Hebrew Script: Up to the Babylonian Exile (Jerusalem: Carta, 2018).
Endnote 7 - A Very Brief History of Old Hebrew Script
The most optimistic estimations situate the earliest Old Hebrew Dead Sea scrolls in the fifth or fourth century B.C.E. See Salomo A. Birnbaum, The Hebrew Scripts (Leiden: Brill, 1971), col. 64–70; Michael Langlois, “Dead Sea Scrolls Paleography and the Samaritan Pentateuch,” in Michael Langlois, ed., The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Peeters: Leuven, 2019), pp. 255–285. The generally accepted earliest date is the third century B.C.E.
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