Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions

Volume 1: Corpus and Concordance

G. I. Davies

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Cambridge University Press
09 December 1991

Palaeography (history of writing)

The inscriptions dealt with in this book come from the Old Testament period (c. 1000 BC to c. 200 BCE) and constitute an important additional source for our knowledge of the Hebrew language and the religion, history and customs of ancient Israel. The corpus includes texts like the Lachish and Arad letters, the Siloam tunnel inscription, the recently discovered religious texts from Kuntillet Ajerud, and the hundreds of seals, seal-impressions and weights that are now known. Each text is given a unique reference number according to a specially-devised system, with an indication of its date and place of origin (where these are known) and one or more bibliographical references. No such comprehensive edition has been published for over fifty years. The concordance is the first to be produced for this body of texts. It covers all complete words in the texts (including prepositions and names of persons and places), and also the Egyptian hieratic numerals and other symbols that were used in them.

Edited by: G. I. Davies
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 47mm
Weight: 1.130kg
ISBN: 9780521402484
ISBN 10: 0521402484
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 09 December 1991
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Transliteration scheme; Key to symbols; List of sites and polytopic entries; Map: the provenances of the inscriptions; Abbreviations and bibliography; Corpus of inscriptions from before 200 BC; Concordance; Synopsis of collections of inscriptions.