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The Armenian Bible
Armenia had no written literature at all until the fifth century of the common era. When Mesrop Mashtots, a former royal secretary who had become a priest and then a hermit, sat…
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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…