31°41′47″N 34°57′26″E / 31.69639°N 34.95722°E / 31.69639; 34.95722 Khirbet Qeiyafa (Arabic: خربة قيافة), also known as Elah Fortress and in Hebrew as...

The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid-shaped potsherd) with five lines of text, discovered in...

discovered David's palace in 2013, 25 kilometres away, at Khirbet Qeiyafa. Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, an Iron Age site in Judah, found an urbanized settlement...

Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. It has been identified by some with Khirbet Qeiyafa, an archaeological site on a hilltop overlooking the Elah Valley in...

Bible: a shrine model from the early half of the 10th century BCE in Khirbet Qeiyafa; and the Tel Motza temple, dated to the 9th century BCE and located...

it does not indicate the extent of its power. Recent excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, however, support the existence of a centrally organized and urbanized...

however, a potsherd (ostracon) bearing an inscription was excavated at Khirbet Qeiyafa which has since been interpreted as representing a recognizably Hebrew...

Proto-Canaanite is clearly attested (Byblos inscriptions 10th–8th century BC, Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription c. 10th century BC). The first published group of Proto-Sinaitic...

In 2007, he began conducting excavations at the fortified city of Khirbet Qeiyafa. This site is dated to the early 10th century BC, the period of the...

Lachish Mesad Hashavyahu Ostraca House at Samaria Elah Fortress at Khirbet Qeiyafa Additionally, the lots drawn at Masada are believed to have been ostraca...

Adullam, and on its north lie the ruins of the ancient fortress city of Khirbet Qeiyafa, which is identified with the ancient town of Sha'araim (1 Samuel 17:52)...

000-year-old inscription on a reconstructed large ceramic jar found in Khirbet Qeiyafa, containing the name "Eshbaal ben Beda". Though this Eshbaal is a different...

are the Hebrew Bible and inscriptions such as the Gezer calendar and Khirbet Qeiyafa pottery shard. All of the other Canaanite languages seem to have become...

Proto-Canaanite script. Another possible Proto-Canaanite inscription is the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon, a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon believed...

Aaron Demsky (2012). "An Iron Age IIA Alphabetic Writing Exercise from Khirbet Qeiyafa". Israel Exploration Journal. 62 (2). Israel Exploration Society: 186–199...

precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), if it can be considered Hebrew...

of Judah existed by c. 700 BCE at least, and recent excavations in Khirbet Qeiyafa have provided strong evidence for dating the Kingdom of Judah to the...

June 2018. Finkelstein, Israel; Fantalkin, Alexander (May 2012). "Khirbet Qeiyafa: an unsensational archaeological and historical interpretation" (PDF)...

Israeli archaeologist Yossi Garfinkel discovered a ceramic shard at Khirbet Qeiyafa that he claimed may be the earliest Hebrew writing yet discovered,...

'Ethri Jarmuth Tell ej-Judeideh Kharruba Keilah Tel Lachish Lavnin Khirbet Qeiyafa Khirbet er-Ra'i Sokho Tel Yona [he] Tel Zayit Zorah Horvat Burgin Bar Kokhba...

centralized kingdom at that time remains "tenuous." Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa by archaeologists Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor found an urbanized...

century BCE, Khirbet er-Ra'i was a small village, but seems to have had the largest pottery assemblage in the region after Khirbet Qeiyafa. In 2021, archaeologists...

chapter 10, section 2) [Paragraph # 249] Garfinkel, Yosef (2009-12-31), "Khirbet Qeiyafa: Sha'arayim", Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures V, Gorgias Press, pp...

albeit a relatively substantial one. On the other hand, excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa and Eglon, as well as structures from Hazor, Gezer, Megiddo and other...

Koester, Revelation, Yale University Press, pg. 607. Nadav Na'aman, "Was Khirbet Qeiyafa a Judahite City? The Case against It", JBH (2017), pg. 16 F.C. Fensham...

Germany, it is the oldest known Hebrew inscription, preceding the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon by at least two centuries, with the curse tablet dated to...

tracing their origins to a split in an earlier kingdom. Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa and Gath show that large-scale urban civilizations were present in...

the Jabbok River in the western Gilead. The fortified sites of Khirbet Qeiyafa, Khirbet Dawwara, et-Tell, and Gibeon were destroyed or abandoned. Shoshenq...

millstone quarries Saddle quern, other querns, and stone objects at the Khirbet Qeiyafa archaeological site in Israel Demonstration of quern-stone use in Iran...

found. The 20 sites where the most specimens have been found are: Khirbet Qeiyafa: 693 Lachish: 415 Jerusalem: 281 Ramat Rahel: 163 Mordot Arnona: 124...