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The Silver Scroll
In 1979, excavating a tomb in a cave on the western slope of the City of David, the archaeologist Gabriel Barkay uncovered two small objects that were, at first, easy to overlook:…
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Judean Epigraphy
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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…