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...
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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...
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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...
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Shaaraim (section Identification with Kh. Qeiyafa)
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...
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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...
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it does not indicate the extent of its power. Recent excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, however, support the existence of a centrally organized and urbanized...
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however, a potsherd (ostracon) bearing an inscription was excavated at Khirbet Qeiyafa which has since been interpreted as representing a recognizably Hebrew...
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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...
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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...
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Lachish Mesad Hashavyahu Ostraca House at Samaria Elah Fortress at Khirbet Qeiyafa Additionally, the lots drawn at Masada are believed to have been ostraca...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Aaron Demsky (2012). "An Iron Age IIA Alphabetic Writing Exercise from Khirbet Qeiyafa". Israel Exploration Journal. 62 (2). Israel Exploration Society: 186–199...
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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...
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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...
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June 2018. Finkelstein, Israel; Fantalkin, Alexander (May 2012). "Khirbet Qeiyafa: an unsensational archaeological and historical interpretation" (PDF)...
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Israeli archaeologist Yossi Garfinkel discovered a ceramic shard at Khirbet Qeiyafa that he claimed may be the earliest Hebrew writing yet discovered,...
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'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...
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centralized kingdom at that time remains "tenuous." Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa by archaeologists Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor found an urbanized...
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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...
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chapter 10, section 2) [Paragraph # 249] Garfinkel, Yosef (2009-12-31), "Khirbet Qeiyafa: Sha'arayim", Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures V, Gorgias Press, pp...
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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...
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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...
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Germany, it is the oldest known Hebrew inscription, preceding the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon by at least two centuries, with the curse tablet dated to...
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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...
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the Jabbok River in the western Gilead. The fortified sites of Khirbet Qeiyafa, Khirbet Dawwara, et-Tell, and Gibeon were destroyed or abandoned. Shoshenq...
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millstone quarries Saddle quern, other querns, and stone objects at the Khirbet Qeiyafa archaeological site in Israel Demonstration of quern-stone use in Iran...
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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...
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