"See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me" (Ps 40:8) : : epigraphy and daily life from the Bible to the Talmud / / Esther Eshel, Yigal Levin (ed.).

• Superior document: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements ; Volume 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Levin, Yigal,; Eshel, Esther,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany ;, Bristol, Connecticut : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: German
• Series: Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Notes: "Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Hanan Eshel."; "With 60 figures."

In January 2011, the David and Jemima Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center for Jewish History held its second international conference at Bar-Ilan University, dedicated to the memory of Professor Hanan Eshel, the founding academic director of the center who passed away on April 8th, 2010. This collection of articles, traces, when taken together, daily lifein the land of Israel from the First Temple Period through the time of the Talmud, as seen in the various types of inscriptions from those periods that have been discovered and published. Schiffman's summary of Hanan's work serves as an introduction t

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Preface; Marlene Schiffman and Lawrence H. Schiffman: The Contribution of Hanan Eshel to the Study of the Judean Desert Documents; Shmuel Ahịtuv: Notes on the Kuntillet 'Ajrud Inscriptions; I. Introduction; II. Palaeography, Orthography, and Linguistics; III. Contribution of the Inscriptions to the Study of Israelite Religion; The 'asherah; Syncretism in Kuntillet ʻAjrud?; Literacy; Conclusions; Bibliography

Shmuel Ahịtuv and Amihai Mazar: The Inscriptions from Tel Rehọv and their Contribution to the Study of Script and Writing during Iron Age IIACorpus of Inscriptions; Chronology of the Tel Rehọv Inscriptions; Notes to Table 1:; Additional Inscriptions from the Tenth and Ninth Centuries BCE; Tenth-Century BCE Inscriptions; Ninth-Century BCE Inscriptions; Discussion; Language; Chronology and Paleographic Development; Literacy; History and Epigraphy; Bibliography

Aren M. Maeir and Esther Eshel: Four Short Alphabetic Inscriptions from Late Iron Age IIa Tell es-̣Sạfi/Gath and their Implications for the Development of Literacy in Iron Age Philistia and EnvironsIntroduction; Archaeological Background; The Inscriptions and Their Context; The Inscription; Inscription 1 (Fig. 5); Script; Interpretation; Inscription 2 (Fig. 6); Script; Interpretation; Inscription 3 (Fig. 7); Inscription 4 (Fig.7); Script; Interpretation; Discussion; Aaron Demsky: Researching Literacy in Ancient Israel - New Approaches and Recent Developments; Defining minimal literacy

Orality and LiteracyThree Early Alphabetic Inscriptions; Bibliography; Lester L. Grabbe: Scribes, Writing, and Epigraphy in the Second Temple Period; (1) Information on Jewish Scribes and Scribalism: Biblical and Second Temple Writings; (2) Comparative Models: a Personal Secretary and a Village Scribe; Zenon; A Scribe of Ptolemaic Egypt; (3) Scribes and Torah; Ezra the Scribe; Ben Sira, the Model Scribe; Other Possible References in Jewish Literature; "Scribes" in the Gospels; Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography

Uriel Rappaport: The Inscriptions on the Yehud and the Hasmonean Coins: Historical Perspectives