Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions Volume 1 Corpus and Concordance [Hardcover]

This book constitutes an important knowledge of the Hebrew language, religion, history and customs of ancient Israel.The inscriptions dealt with in this book come from the Old Testament period and constitute an important additional source for our knowledge of the Hebrew language and the religion, history and customs of ancient Israel.The inscriptions dealt with in this book come from the Old Testament period and constitute an important additional source for our knowledge of the Hebrew language and the religion, history and customs of ancient Israel.The inscriptions dealt with in this book come from the Old Testament period (c. 1000 BCE 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 such as 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. No such comprehensive edition has been published for over fifty years and the concordance is the first to be produced for this body of texts. 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.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. Davies has executed well the program that he set out to achieve....a helpful, time-saving tool.... Ziony Zevit, Catholic Biblical Quarterly Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions is destined to be a primary reference tool for epigraphists, historians, and other scholars for years to come. Its concise presentation, logical organization, and comprehensil³I