Hezekiah

Transmission

The Siloam Inscription and Hezekiah’s Tunnel

The Siloam Inscription is, in the modern inventory of Hebrew inscriptions, one of the most consequential single inscriptions from the Israelite period of the first millennium BC. The inscription was found, in…

Scripture

The Lachish Letters and the Last Days of the Kingdom of Judah

Among the small corpus of Hebrew inscriptions from the period of the divided monarchy, the eighteen ostraca known as the Lachish Letters occupy a place of unique importance. Found in the ruins…