Biblical Archaeology Review

The exhibit was prepared by Uza Zevulun and Yael Olenik and first shown at the Ceramic Museum of the Haaretz Museum in Tel Aviv.

Professor Goedicke deliberately refers to Hatshepsut as a king despite the fact that she was a woman. She was pictured with an artificial beard such as male rulers wore and with a deliberately flattened chest. Literary references to her include all the usual male epithets applied to a king except the epithet “strong bull.”

This inscription has long been known and was first published in 1880. It is famous because of its reference to Asiatics or the Hyksos invaders of Egypt. No one previous to Professor Goedicke however, has related the inscription to the Exodus.

Tell Hazzob is unexcavated. Clearly it should yield to the excavator’s spade. The Arab name for the site is Umm-Garf which means the mother of potsherds.

There is a parallel to this event from the time of Ramesses III (1183–1152 B.C.): After a mutiny Ramesses III quartered the mercenaries who, until then, had lived as “military settlers” in garrisons where their provisioning was arranged.

See “The Last Legacy of Roland de Vaux,” BAR 06:04, by Nahum Sarna and “The Separate Traditions of Abraham and Jacob,” BAR 06:04, by Père Roland de Vaux.

There are also other possibilities. The grooves appear to be too shallow to catch much water.

“ki” is an unpronounced determinative indicating that the name which precedes it is the name of a city, building, or region.

After being filled with sherds in the field, the bucket is brought back to camp. Water is added and the pottery is soaked for a while making it easier to remove the dirt.