Biblical Archaeology Review

I have also published this plaque in Tallay Ornan, “Labor Pangs: The Revadim Plaque Type,” in Susanne Bickel et al., eds., Bilder als Quellen/Images as Sources: Studies on Ancient Near Eastern Artefacts and the Bible Inspired by the Work of Othmar Keel (Fribourg: Academic Press Fribourg, 2007), pp. 215–235.

EA 243:10–18.

EA 369.

EA 287:14–16.

H.J. Franken and M.L. Steiner, “Urusalim and Jebus,” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 104 (1992), pp. 110–111.

EA 280:30–35: “Moreover, Lab’ayu, who used to take our towns, is dead, but now another Lab’ayu is ‘Abdi-Heba, and he seizes our towns.”

There are six certain tablets from Jerusalem, and a seventh (EA 291) was identified with a question mark by Knudtzon. I accept the identification, whereas others have doubted it. ‘Abdi-Heba is mentioned in still another letter (EA 280), which was sent to the pharaoh by Shuwardata, king of Gath.

EA 283:18–21 (EA=el-Amarna tablets), cited from J.A. Knudtzon, O. Weber and E. Ebeling, Die El-Amarna Tafeln, 2 vols., Vorderasiatische Bibliothek 2 (Leipzig, 1915); and Anson F. Rainey, El-Amarna Tablets 359–379: Supplement to J.A. Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna Tafeln, 2nd rev. ed., Alter Orient und Altes Testament 8 (Kevelaer and Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1970).