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The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, ... "Is the Mesha Inscription a Forgery?". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 35 (3). University of Pennsylvania Press: ...
The two main sources for the existence and history of King Mesha are the Mesha Stele and the Hebrew Bible.. Per the Mesha Stele, Mesha's father was also a king of Moab.His name is not totally preserved in the inscription, only the theophoric first element Chemosh(-...) surviving; throughout the years scholars have proposed numerous reconstructions, including Chemosh-gad, [2] Chemosh-melek, [3 ...
Melqart stele – (9th–8th century BC) William F. Albright identifies Bar-hadad with Ben-hadad I, who was a contemporary of the biblical Asa and Baasha. Ostraca House – (probably about 850 BC, at least prior to 750 BC) 64 legible ostraca found in the treasury of Ahab – written in early Hebrew.
Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab. Scholars Press. ISBN 9781555403577. Many comparisons of Biblical Hebrew with the language of the Mêša˓ inscription appear in Wilhelm Gesenius' Hebrew grammar, e.g. §2 d , §5 d , §7 b , §7 f , §49 a , §54 l , §87 e , §88 c , §117 b , etc. Jacobs, Joseph and Louis H. Gray. "Moab". The Jewish ...
At this time Israel was apparently engaged in a three-way contest with Damascus and Tyre for control of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee in the north, and with Moab, Ammon and Aram Damascus in the east for control of Gilead; [45] the Mesha Stele (c. 830 BCE), left by a king of Moab, celebrates his success in throwing off the oppression of the ...
The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite god Yahweh. [37] The Mesha Stele, dated to 840 BCE, mentions the Israelite god Yahweh. [37] Roughly contemporary pottery sherds and plaster inscriptions found at Kuntillet Ajrud mention "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah" and "Yahweh of Teman and his Asherah". [38]
Ophel, with the definite article ha-ophel, is a common noun known from two Canaanitic languages, Biblical Hebrew and Moabitic. [3] As a place name or description it appears several times in the Hebrew Bible and once on the Mesha Stele from Moab. [3]
According to the Moabite Mesha Stele (ca. 840 BCE) the Moabites reclaimed many territories in the second part of the 9th century BCE (only recently conquered by Omri and Ahab according to the Stele). The stele does mention fighting against the tribe of Gad but not the tribe of Reuben, even though taking Nebo and Jahaz which were in the centre ...