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Archaeological excavations held at the site uncovered a series of Iron Age period Judahite burial chambers, dating to the 7th and 6th centuries BCE. It is famous for the Ketef Hinnom scrolls , which are the oldest surviving texts from the Hebrew Bible currently known, dated to 600 BC.
The identification of individuals named in bullae with equivalent names from the Bible is difficult, but identifications have been made with king Hezekiah [49] and his servants (avadim in Hebrew, [עבדים – slaves]) Bulla of Gemariah son of Shaphan (r. 609–598 BC) – possible link to a figure during the reign of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 36: ...
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible.Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical works.
The Ketef Hinnom scrolls, also described as Ketef Hinnom amulets, are the oldest surviving texts currently known from the Hebrew Bible, dated to c. 600 BCE. [2] The text, written in the Paleo-Hebrew script (not the Babylonian square letters of the modern Hebrew alphabet, more familiar to most modern readers), is from the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible, and has been described as "one of ...
Leningrad/Petrograd Codex text sample, portions of Exodus 15:21-16:3. A Hebrew Bible manuscript is a handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) made on papyrus, parchment, or paper, and written in the Hebrew language (some of the biblical text and notations may be in Aramaic).
The Kennicott Bible (Galician: Biblia Kennicott or Biblia de Kennicott), also known as the First Kennicott Bible, [1] is an illuminated manuscript copy of the Hebrew Bible, copied in the city of A Coruña in 1476 [2] by the calligrapher Moses ibn Zabarah [] and illuminated by Joseph ibn Hayyim.
The second Bible belonged to family friend Regina Shelton, whom Harris called a “second mother” to her and her sister. "Mrs. Shelton would bring her Bible to church every Sunday.
In the Gemara, the shamir (Hebrew: שָׁמִיר šāmīr) is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the first Temple in Jerusalem in place of cutting tools. For the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem, which promoted peace ...