Biblical Archaeology Review

Because God is asking a question of Jonah, the form leûkaµ (to you) is used rather than the form lô (to him).

Numbers 14:45, Numbers 21:3; Deuteronomy 1:44; Judges 1:17; 1 Samuel 30:30.

Beer-sheba is sometimes spelled Beer-sheva because that is the way it is pronounced in modern Hebrew. We use “b” instead of “v” because it is the customary spelling of the English Bible.

In an interview published in the September/October BAR (“BAR Interviews Giovanni Pettinato,” BAR 06:05), Pettinato did identify the inventory numbers of tablets which, he contends, contain names corresponding to Sodom, Gomorrah, and Zoar. Pettinato denies ever writing that the five names appear in the same tablet.

A logogram is a sign representing primarily whole words.

Materiale per Vocabulario Neo-Sumerico, 6, p. 339.

Dingir is an unpronounced determinative indicating that the sign(s) to which it is attached is a deity.

A determinative is a non-phonetic (that is, unpronounced) sign which indicates something about the word in which it appears, in this case that Ya is a deity.

The so-called “Old Calendar” was used by the Eblaite Kings who preceded Ibbi-Sipis. Ibbi-Sipis then introduced the so-called “New Calendar.”