Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Volume 1: Corpus and Concordance

ISBN-13: 9780521402484 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 600 str.

Graham I. Davies; G. I. Davies; G. I. Davies

Opis

The inscriptions dealt with in this book come from the Old Testament period (c. 1000 BCE to c. 200 BCE) and constitute an important additional source for our knowledge of the Hebrew language and the religion, history and customs of ancient Israel. The corpus includes texts such as the Lachish and Arad letters, the Siloam tunnel inscription, the recently discovered religious texts from Kuntillet Ajerud, and the hundreds of seals, seal impressions and weights that are now known. No such comprehensive edition has been published for over fifty years and the concordance is the first to be produced for this body of texts. It covers all complete words in the texts (including prepositions and names of persons and places), and also the Egyptian hieratic numerals and other symbols that were used in them.

Recenzje

'… beautifully produced and potentially very valuable work of reference.' Expository Times

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Transliteration scheme; Key to symbols; List of sites and polytopic entries; Map: the provenances of the inscriptions; Abbreviations and bibliography; Corpus of inscriptions from before 200 BC; Concordance; Synopsis of collections of inscriptions.