Literate Culture and Tenth-century Canaan: The Tel Zayit by Ron E. Tappy, P. Kyle, Jr. McCarter
By Ron E. Tappy, P. Kyle, Jr. McCarter
At the ultimate day of the 2005 excavation at Tel Zayit, archaeologists came across a heavy limestone boulder with a wide, bowl-shaped hole floor into one facet and traces of alphabetic writing incised into the opposite aspect. This inscription used to be famous to be an abecedary containing the entire letters of the Canaanite alphabet—the so much mammoth abecedary stumbled on to date in a stratified 10th-century archaeological context in Israel. It evinces the linear alphabetic script of the significant and southern Canaanite inside initially of the 1st millennium B.C.E.
The essays during this e-book grew out of papers provided on the 2007 annual assembly of the yankee faculties of Oriental learn. In them, the participants situate the archaeological, geographical, and social context of Tel Zayit and speak about the paleography of the script. in addition they supply insightful research concerning the attainable quantity of literacy and schooling in historic Israel and touch upon the measure to which scribal tradition could have contributed to the method of country formation.
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16 These natural groupings of towns along and within the liminal zone molded to a large extent the economic exchange systems (Tappy in press) and district boundary lines (Tappy 2008) within this area. Moreover, the terrain itself sometimes dictated the field strategy for major military incursions into the liminal area of the Shephelah, as witnessed in the events of Sennacherib’s third campaign (again, see Tappy 2008). Tel Zayit itself lies at the mouth of the Guvrin system, near the edge of the inner coastal plain.
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