The Date of the Siloam Inscription: A Rejoinder to Rogerson and Davies
As deeply as the Siloam tunnel runs beneath the limestone spur of Iron Age Jerusalem, so deeply flawed is Rogerson and Davies' palaeographic assessment of the Siloam inscription. Anything more than a cursory analysis demonstrates that the letter forms of the inscription belong to a reliable seq...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Scholars Press
1996
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The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1996, Volume: 59, Issue: 4, Pages: 233-237 |
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| Summary: | As deeply as the Siloam tunnel runs beneath the limestone spur of Iron Age Jerusalem, so deeply flawed is Rogerson and Davies' palaeographic assessment of the Siloam inscription. Anything more than a cursory analysis demonstrates that the letter forms of the inscription belong to a reliable sequence of the eighth-seventh century BCE and do not fit the palaeo-Hebrew sequence of the Hasmonean period. The epigraphic data are clear, coherent, and compelling. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210565 |