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.
Confirmado pelo terrenoInscriçãoc. 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.
- Encontrado
- The fortress at Tel Arad, Israel, 1962 — Yohanan Aharoni's excavation
- Conservado em
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Língua
- Hebrew
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
No biblical individual is securely identified in the archive. Its value is the ordinary texture: literacy, administration, religion and names.
Como os historiadores o usam
Central to the debate on the spread of literacy in late-monarchic Judah, including recent handwriting analyses.
Na Escritura
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Fontes
- Aharoni, Arad Inscriptions (1981)
Por enquanto estes textos estão em inglês. As traduções virão.