The Lachish Letters are a series of letters written in carbon ink containing ancient Israelite inscriptions in Ancient Hebrew on clay ostraca. The letters...

named in honor of the ancient city. Lachish was first mentioned in the Amarna letters. In the Book of Joshua, Lachish is cited as one of the cities conquered...

is not certain, there is a scholarly opinion that Uriah might be referenced in the Lachish letters. See Lachish letters. Jeremiah 26:20–23 v t e v t e...

most significant discoveries ever made" for biblical studies. Lachish letters – letters written in carbon ink by Hoshaiah (cf. Nehemiah 12:32, Jeremiah...

found in a tomb at Khirbet Beit Lei. Yahweh is mentioned also in the Lachish letters (587 BCE) and the slightly earlier Tel Arad ostraca, and on a stone...

Ages until the end of the 18th century. Chemical tests made on the Lachish letters (c. 588–586 BCE) showed the possible presence of iron. It is thought...

referred to as the Lachish letters, were discovered during excavations; one, which was probably written to the commander at Lachish from an outlying base...

Maccabees. These are supplemented by biblical references, the letters from Nimrud, the Lachish letters, and archaeological remains of the Tobiad estate in Iraq...

probably ibex Lachish Lachish letters Lachish reliefs LMLK seal Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions Ta'anach cult stand Hestrin, Ruth (1987). "The Lachish Ewer and...

times in the Book of Jeremiah while the name Yaush appears in the Lachish letters. However, the combination of names was unknown to scholars. In 2007...

[I burned] with fire… Azekah is also mentioned in one of the Lachish letters. Lachish Letter 4 suggests that Azekah was destroyed, as they were no longer...

Kingdom, a method well-documented in the Book of Jeremiah and the Lachish letters. According to the biblical account, the United Kingdom of Israel was...

artifacts unearthed in Jerusalem, Megiddo, Ashkelon, Lachish, Sebastia, and Jericho. One of the Lachish letters is on permanent display at the museum, as are...

in Amarna letters, and in Phoenician. Yet, usage of vav-consecutive with perfect in a narration is unique to Hebrew. The Lachish letters, dating to c...

Zimredda (Lachish mayor) was a leader of Lachish in the mid 14th century BC. He is mentioned in the Amarna letters, and is the author of EA 329, (EA for...

Will Not See Azekah, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Publishing, 2000 – About the Lachish Letters. "Begin, Ze'ev Benjamin (Benny) (1943–)," (https://www.encyclopedia...

This is a list of Amarna letters–Text corpus, categorized by: Amarna letters–localities and their rulers. It includes countries, regions, and the cities...

Shekem Shereq List of artifacts significant to the Bible Arad ostraca Lachish letters Faigenbaum-Golovin, Shira; Shaus, Arie; Sober, Barak; Turkel, Eli;...

Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions Three shekel ostracon Samaria ostraca Lachish letters Pike 2020, p. 203: About two hundred inscriptions were discovered at...

Inscription from Babylon, Iraq, (604–562 BC) Lachish Letters, group of ostraka written in alphabetic Hebrew from Lachish, Israel, (586 BC) Cylinder of Nabonidus...

by Egypt until the last invasion by Merneptah in 1207 BCE. The Amarna Letters are an example of a specific period during the Late Bronze Age when the...

Canaanite Ivory Comb is a 3,700 year old artifact discovered in the ruins of Lachish, an ancient Canaanite city-state located in modern day Israel. Measuring...

developed cursive script is found on the 18 Lachish ostraca, letters sent by an officer to the governor of Lachish just before the destruction of the First...

played a role in a number of major discoveries, including those of the Lachish letters and the Dead Sea Scrolls. ʿAwad was born to the Negev Bedouin Hanajira...

the 1950s and the acquisition in 1980 of around 17,000 objects found at Lachish by the Wellcome-Marston expedition of 1932–1938. Archaeological digs are...

times in the Book of Jeremiah while the name Yaush appears in the Lachish letters. However, the combination of names was unknown to scholars. During...

arrived at their values is that they were similar to the other Phoenician letters that were by now well known… He includes a list of roots as realized in...

Shelah's son, Cozeba, who is mentioned in I Chronicles (4:22). The Lachish Letters makes mention of a certain "Beit Achzi[b]" in the Shefelah, the lower...

written 18 months earlier, found in the excavations at Lachish" (Ostracon VI of Lachish letters). So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of...

Proto-Canaanite inscription ever found. Other inscriptions include the Lachish Dagger, Gezer Sherd, Schechem Plaque, Nagila Sherd, Izbet Sartah Ostracon...