The Arad ostraca — "the house of YHWH"
Everyday army paperwork from a Judahite fort refers to the temple of YHWH and carries the same stock of personal names as the biblical books of the period.
Vom Boden bestätigtInschriftc. 600 BC
More than a hundred inked potsherds from a Judahite border fort: ration orders, troop movements, a warning about Edom. Several mention "the house of YHWH", and the names on them — Hananyahu, Gemaryahu, Meshullam — are the ordinary Judahite names of the same period as Jeremiah.
…and as to the matter which you commanded me — it is well. He is in the house of YHWH.
- Gefunden
- The fortress at Tel Arad, Israel, 1962 — Yohanan Aharoni's excavation
- Heute in
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Sprache
- Hebrew
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
No biblical individual is securely identified in the archive. Its value is the ordinary texture: literacy, administration, religion and names.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
Central to the debate on the spread of literacy in late-monarchic Judah, including recent handwriting analyses.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Aharoni, Arad Inscriptions (1981)
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