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.
Confirmé par le terrainInscriptionc. 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.
- Découvert
- The fortress at Tel Arad, Israel, 1962 — Yohanan Aharoni's excavation
- Conservé à
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Langue
- Hebrew
- Comment il nous est parvenu
- Fouillé, ou encore debout là où il fut bâti.
Ce qu'elle montre
No biblical individual is securely identified in the archive. Its value is the ordinary texture: literacy, administration, religion and names.
Ce qu'en font les historiens
Central to the debate on the spread of literacy in late-monarchic Judah, including recent handwriting analyses.
Dans l'Écriture
Se rattache à
Sources
- Aharoni, Arad Inscriptions (1981)
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