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The Inscriptions
Shmuel Ahituv, Esther Eshel, Zeev Meshel · 2012
Reading ancient testimony
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Document and modern access
- Type
- excavation-report chapter and inscription edition
- Publication
- Israel Exploration Society
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Occupation and inscriptional activity at Kuntillet Ajrud — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · dates · palaeography by inscription
Supports text dating.
- date assertion Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · pp. 73-142; inscriptions by object and locus
Primary edition and translation.
- entity YHWH / YahwehEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · blessing formulae
Provides later direct inscriptional evidence.
- date assertion YHWH / Yahweh — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · blessing formulae
Provides later direct inscriptional evidence.
- event Occupation and inscriptional activity at Kuntillet AjrudEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · inscriptions by object/locus
Primary text edition.
- causal hypothesis Early Yahwism through southern interaction networksEvidence confidence: lowinforms · provides primary evidence · later Yahweh formulae
Later anchor.
- ranked model Early Yahwism and Shasu/Midian proposalsEvidence confidence: lowinforms · provides primary evidence · later Yahweh attestations
Later control point.
- relationship Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions — attests — YHWH / YahwehEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary evidence · blessing formulae
Direct attestation.
- date assertion Occupation and inscriptional activity at Kuntillet Ajrud — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · inscriptions by object/locus
Primary text edition.
- entity Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptionsEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · pp. 73-142; inscriptions by object and locus
Primary edition and translation.
- claim Kuntillet Ajrud documents regionalized Yahwistic discourse and divine associations in the late ninth or eighth century, not a single uniform biblical monotheism across earlier p…Evidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · blessing formulae and poetic texts
Direct corpus.