Biblical Archaeology Review

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Scrolls from Qumran Cave I, The Great Isaiah Scroll, The Order of the Community, The Pesher to Habakkuk (Jerusalem: The Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and The Shrine of the Book, 1972).

Further on the equivalence of the Taw and Chi see Saul Lieberman, Greek in Jewish Palestine (New York: P. Feldheim, 2nd edition 1965).

cf. Jonathan A. Siegel in “The Evolution of Two Hebrew Scripts,” BAR 05:03.

A. Dupont-Sommer, The Jewish Sect of Qumran and the Essenes (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955), pp. 160f.

J. L. Teicher in Journal of Jewish Studies 5 (1954), pp. 53f.

Jason’s Tomb in Jerusalem may be the only other one. A burial tomb of the Hasmonean period (second century B.C.), Jason’s Tomb was unearthed in 1956 in the residential neighborhood of Rehavia. Incised on its rock walls are drawings of a menorah and an ancient naval battle, as well as the name “Jason.”

This theory has in fact been in existence since the beginning of scholarly research in the field. An excellent short version of it can be found in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume I, s.v. Amorites; in B. Landsberger, “Period IV 1100–1500:” “ … In addition, the name Hatti came to be used almost synonymously with Amurru: this shift of meaning for these two historical terms is paralleled by the use of the term Emori and Hitti in the Old Testament.”

See Maisler (Mazar) Lesonenu XV (1947) p. 42.

And this is mainly because of the existence of two rulers with the same Hurrian names Sheshai and Talmi/Talmai in Hebronite tradition which refers to the early rulers of the city (“the children of Anak”). See Aharon Kempinski, Encyclopaedia Biblica, Volume 8, s.v. Tlmi.