5.1.2.1. The Qeiyafa Excavations and its ’Eshbaʿal Inscription

Sa mu el 330 view that tries to utterly “revise” the ancient history of the unified kingdom of Israel ( cf . Garfinkel 2011 a ; 2011 b ) . Earlier, a small ostra - con of five ink - written lines ( probably a scribal exercise ) had been found in this site, and stirred up a debate about its reading, type, and meaning . 4 A new inscription from Qeiyafa was published a few years ago . It is engraved on the shoulder of a storage jar and has been deciphered, analyzed, and interpreted thoroughly by four scholars ( Garfinkel, Golub, Misgav & Ganor 2015 ) . The inscription opens with enough space for a word, which preserves remains of four consonants . Yet in her drawing Ada Yardeni ( in the above - mentioned article : 226 – 227 ) Gershon Galil adopts this reading and . כפרת : reconstructs the word The expiation of ’Ishba ʿ al son – כפרת . אשבעל . בן . בדע [ ם ] : translates it of bd ʿ [ m ] ( in L . Mazor 2015 a ) . Garfinkel, Kreimerman and Zilberg Both . כברת or חלקת : have offered two othe...  אל הספר
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