claim · claim_kuntillet_not_automatically_temple
Religious inscriptions and images at Kuntillet Ajrud do not automatically make the whole installation a temple or shrine.
Religious inscriptions and images at Kuntillet Ajrud do not automatically make the whole installation a temple or shrine.
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Other source context
- informs · critiques interpretation
Religion at Kuntillet ʿAjrud — Jeremy D. Smoak, William M. Schniedewind (2019)Supports non-cultic primary function.
Locator: site function argument - informs · proposes interpretation
Kuntillet ‘Ajrud (Ḥorvat Teman): An Iron Age II Religious Site on the Judah-Sinai Border — Zeev Meshel (2012)Supports stronger religious-site reading.
Locator: site interpretation in final report