Ancient Hebrew inscriptions : corpus and concordance

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Ancient Hebrew inscriptions : corpus and concordance

G.I. Davies ; assisted by M.N.A. Bockmuehl, D.R. de Lacey, and A.J. Poulter

Cambridge University Press, 1991-2004

  • [v. 1]
  • v. 2 : hbk

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v. 2 / Graham Davies ; assisted by J.K. Aitken, D.R. de Lacey, P.A. Smith and J. Squirrel

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

[v. 1] ISBN 9780521402484

Description

The inscriptions dealt with in this book come from the Old Testament period (c. 1000 BC to c. 200 BCE) and constitute an important additional source for our knowledge of the Hebrew language and the religion, history and customs of ancient Israel. The corpus includes texts like the Lachish and Arad letters, the Siloam tunnel inscription, the recently discovered religious texts from Kuntillet Ajerud, and the hundreds of seals, seal-impressions and weights that are now known. Each text is given a unique reference number according to a specially devised system, with an indication of its date and place of origin (where these are known) and one or more bibliographical references. It covers all complete words in the texts (including prepositions and names of persons and places), and also the Egyptian hieratic numerals and other symbols that were used in them.

Table of Contents

  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Transliteration scheme
  • Key to symbols
  • List of sites and polytopic entries
  • Map: the provenances of the inscriptions
  • Abbreviations and bibliography
  • Corpus of inscriptions from before 200 BC
  • Concordance
  • Synopsis of collections of inscriptions.
Volume

v. 2 : hbk ISBN 9780521829991

Description

This is the sequel to the first volume of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance, published in 1991. It contains some 750 inscriptions from the Old Testament period which were mainly published for the first time between 1990 and 2000. Some were discovered in regular archaeological excavations, others come from private collections. The new material includes ostraca from different sites, which are of religious, literary and historical importance, and extensive information about the personal names which were in use in the biblical period. The number of coin-legends and other texts from the Persian and early Hellenistic periods has also been enlarged. Each text is supplied with a brief description, an approximate date and publication information. The concordance provides an easy way to discover which Hebrew words and proper names occur in non-biblical sources and helps greatly to widen the basis for Hebrew language study.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Corpus of new texts
  • 2. Concordance to the new texts
  • Additions and corrections to AHI
  • Synoptic tables.

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