"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...

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