secondary_with_primary_text_analysis · src_schniedewind_mandell_2019_kuntillet
Religion at Kuntillet ʿAjrud
Jeremy D. Smoak, William M. Schniedewind · 2019
Reading ancient testimony
Ask who produced the document, for whom, and for what purpose. Distinguish its ancient creation from its modern edition or translation. Survival and excavation shape what can be read today.
Use the linked edition and reliability notes for the author, audience, transmission and limits of this particular source. Missing information is not an assurance of neutrality.
Document and modern access
- Type
- journal article
- Publication
- Religions, vol. 10, no. 3, 211
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Occupation and inscriptional activity at Kuntillet Ajrud — date assertionEvidence confidence: lowinforms · contextualizes · dating and linguistic discussion
Provides later-context comparison.
- date assertion Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions — date assertioninforms · critiques interpretation · entire article
Challenges automatic cult-site interpretation.
- event Occupation and inscriptional activity at Kuntillet AjrudEvidence confidence: highinforms · critiques interpretation · site-function and scribal curriculum argument
Provides alternative interpretation.
- date assertion Occupation and inscriptional activity at Kuntillet Ajrud — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · critiques interpretation · site-function and scribal curriculum argument
Provides alternative interpretation.
- entity Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptionsEvidence confidence: highinforms · critiques interpretation · entire article
Challenges automatic cult-site interpretation.
- claim Religious inscriptions and images at Kuntillet Ajrud do not automatically make the whole installation a temple or shrine.Disputed interpretationConfidence in this assessment: moderateConfidence in the stated assessmentinforms · critiques interpretation · site function argument
Supports non-cultic primary function.
- 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 · proposes interpretation · scribal curriculum and religion
Provides contextual model.
- claim A single inscription or scribal object demonstrates literacy in a context but does not by itself prove a large centralized state.Evidence confidence: near certaininforms · proposes interpretation · scribal curriculum
Shows non-temple/administrative possibilities.
- relationship Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions — associated with — Kingdom of IsraelEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · proposes interpretation · Israelian scribal context
Supports relation.