Shifting Borders?: The Benyaw Inscription from Abel Beth Maacah
Five faded letters inscribed on a storage jar is all the textual evidence we have from ninth-century BCE Abel Beth Maacah in the far north of Israel. However, this short and unassuming text may shed new light on ancient Israel’s borders as we know them.1 The biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah (2 Samu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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The Biblical archaeology review
Year: 2023, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 26-27 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Biblical archaeology
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| Further subjects: | B
Inscriptions
B NAME of God in Judaism B Allegiance B Israel B STORAGE jars |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Five faded letters inscribed on a storage jar is all the textual evidence we have from ninth-century BCE Abel Beth Maacah in the far north of Israel. However, this short and unassuming text may shed new light on ancient Israel’s borders as we know them.1 The biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah (2 Samuel 20:14-22; […] |
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| ISSN: | 0098-9444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeology review
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