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    The Zayit Stone is a 38-pound (17 kg) limestone boulder dating to the 10th century BCE, discovered on 15 July 2005 at Tel Zayit (Zeitah) in the Guvrin...
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  • known inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew script is the Zayit Stone discovered on a wall at Tel Zayit, in the Beth Guvrin Valley in the lowlands of ancient...
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    team of experts and volunteers. In July 2005 excavators discovered the Zayit Stone, which contained an inscription dating to the 10th century BCE (King...
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    Tel Zayit (Hebrew: תל זית, Arabic: Tell Zeita, Kirbat Zeita al Kharab) is an archaeological tell in the Shephelah, or lowlands, of Israel, about 30 km...
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  • abecedaries indicate a slightly different ordering of the alphabet. The Zayit Stone, Izbet Sartah ostracon, and one inscription from Kuntillet Ajrud each...
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  • inscriptions, 4th century BC KAI 24: Kilamuwa Stela, 9th century BC KAI 46: Nora Stone, c. 800 BC KAI 47: Cippi of Melqart inscription, 2nd century BC KAI 26:...
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  • calendar, Biblical period ostraca at Elah and Izbet Sartah, and the Zayit Stone Yeho'ezer ben Hosh'ayahu seal - 2,700 year old seal discovered in 2024...
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    with a dove bringing a freshly plucked olive leaf (Hebrew: עלה זית alay zayit), a sign of life after the Flood and of God's bringing Noah, his family...
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    Trampellos The Old Testament writers also distinguished the two trees: zayit designates the cultivated olive, the wild-olive being designated in the...
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    national dish of Jordan.[citation needed][verification needed] Labaneh bil zayit, "labaneh in oil", consists of small balls of dry labneh kept under oil...
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    Rimon (pomegranate), Te'ena (fig), Gefen (grapevine), Dekel (date palm), Zayit (olive), Tamar (date), and Dagan (grain – symbolizing both wheat and barley)...
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    a rock declivity. It is venerated as the pietra del nascondimento, the "stone in which John was concealed," in reference to the Protevangelium of James...
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    near Beit Guvrin/Maresha, Tel Goded, Lachish, Tell es-Safi/Gath and Tel Zayit (4 kilometers to the west). The site is thought to have been one of a series...
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  • murder, a rock monument was constructed by several dozen residents of Beit Zayit and Jerusalem at the site where his charred body was found and a memorial...
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    Nations and States,” in Literate Culture and Tenth-Century Canaan: The Tel Zayit Abecedary in Context, ed. Ron E. Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter, (Winona Lake...
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    Karnei Shomron, Kedumim, Ma'on, and the Ma'on Farm, Susya, Shavei Shomron, Zayit Ra'anan, the Gilad Farm, Shilo, and Yitzhar, and all under IDF guard, were...
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    Numbers Rabbah 19:11; Yalkut Shimoni, Num. 763, 787 compare the note in "Zayit Ra'anan" to Yalkut Shimoni, Num. 787 Yalkut Shimoni, Num. 764 compare Numbers...
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  • (August 2000). "The 1998 Preliminary Survey of Khirbet Zeitah el-Kharab (Tel Zayit) in the Shephelah of Judah". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental...
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