Leaves from an epigrapher's notebook : : collected papers in Hebrew and West Semitic palaeography and epigraphy / / by Frank Moore Cross.

• Superior document: Harvard Semitic studies ; no. 51
• Author: Cross, Frank Moore.
• Place / Publishing House: Winona Lake, IN : : Eisenbrauns,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Semitic Studies 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 371 pages) :; illustrations

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• The Development of the Jewish Scripts
• The Scripts of the Dâliyeh (Samaria) Papyri
• The Palaeographical Dating of the Copper Document
• Palaeography and the Date of the Tell Faḫariyeh Bilingual Inscription
• A Papyrus Recording a Divine Legal Decision and the Root rḥq in Biblical and Near Eastern Legal Usage
• Ammonite Ostraca from Tell Ḥisbān
• Epigraphic Notes on the ʿAmmān Citadel Inscription
• Notes on the Ammonite Inscription from Tell Sīrān
• A Forgotten Seal
• The Seal of Miqnêyaw, Servant of Yahweh
• Epigraphic Notes on Hebrew Documents of the Eighth-Sixth Centuries B.C.: I. A New Reading of a Place Name in the Samaria Ostraca
• Epigraphic Notes on Hebrew Documents of the Eighth-Sixth Centuries B.C.: II. The Murabbaʿât Papyrus and the Letter Found near Yabneh-yam
• Epigraphic Notes on Hebrew Documents of the Eighth-Sixth Centuries B.C.: III. The Inscribed Jar Handles from Gibeon
• A Literate Soldier: Lachish Letter III
• Lachish Letter IV
• An Ostracon in Literary Hebrew from Ḥorvat ʿUza
• Judaean Stamps
• An Inscribed Weight from ʿArâg el-ʾEmîr
• The Hebrew Inscriptions from Sardis
• Inscriptions from Tel Seraʿ
• A Philistine Ostracon from Ashkelon
• The Cave Inscriptions from Ḫirbat Bayt Layy [Khirbet Beit Lei]
• The Stele Dedicated to Melqart by Ben-Hadad of Damascus
• Fragments of the Prayer of Nabonidus
• An Aramaic Inscription from Daskyleion
• A New Aramaic Stele from Taymāʾ
• An Aramaic Ostracon of the Third Century BCE from the Excavations in Jerusalem
• A Note on a Burial Inscription from Mount Scopus
• The Arrow of Suwar, Retainer of ʿAbday
• An Inscribed Arrowhead of the Eleventh Century BCE in the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem
• Newly Discovered Inscribed Arrowheads of the Eleventh Century BCE
• Newly Found Inscriptions in Old Canaanite and Early Phoenician Scripts
• A Phoenician Inscription from Idalion: Some Old and New Inscriptions Relating to Child Sacrifice
• The Phoenician Inscription from Brazil: A Nineteenth-Century Forgery
• An Interpretation of the Nora Stone
• Phoenicians in the West: The Early Epigraphic Evidence
• The Oldest Phoenician Inscription from Sardinia: The Fragmentary Stele from Nora
• Phoenician Incantations on a Plaque of the Seventh Century BCE from Arslan Tash in Upper Syria
• A Second Phoenician Incantation Text from Arslan Tash
• The Old Phoenician Inscription from Spain Dedicated to Hurrian Astarte
• The Pronominal Suffixes of the Third Person Singular in Phoenician
• An Ostracon in Greek Bearing the Names of the Gates of Idalion
• A Newly Published Inscription of the Persian Age from Byblos
• Jar Inscriptions from Shiqmona
• Two Offering Dishes with Phoenician Inscriptions from the Sanctuary of ʿArad
• An Old Canaanite Inscription Recently Found at Lachish
• An Inscribed Jar Handle from Raddana by Frank Moore Cross and David Noel Freedman
• An Archaic Inscribed Seal from the Valley of Aijalon [Soreq]
• Inscribed Arrowheads from the Period of the Judges by J. T. Milik and Frank Moore Cross
• The Evolution of the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet
• A Ugaritic Abecedary and the Origins of the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet
• The Origin and Early Evolution of the Alph.