The Priestly Benediction on Silver Plaques from Ketef Hinnom in Jerusalem

Barkay, Gabriel

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“…This process culminated by the 7th century with a religious and literary tradition apparently centered around an assortment of sacred texts. This is shown, for example, by the silver amulets bearing fragments of the Priestly Blessing (Numbers 6:24-26) found in a burial in Jerusalem (Yardeni 1991;Barkay 1992).…”

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The Rise of Secondary States in the Iron Age Levant

Joffe¹

2002

J Econ Soc Hist Orient

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This paper examines the formation of states during the Iron Age of the eastern Mediterranean, with particular emphasis on the Levantine states of Israel, Judah, Ammon, and Moab. Using archaeology and texts it proposes that the formation of secondary states was fundamentally different from that of early states such as in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Secondary states in the Levant needed to create not new bureaucratic methods, but new social identities, novel ethnic categories and boundaries. New ideologies were disseminated through material culture which was saturated with symbols of identity, from royal architecture through personal emblems.Cet article examine la formation des tats pendant lÕ‰ge de fer du m diterran en oriental, avec lÕemphase particuli re sur des tats de Levantine de lÕIsrael, du Judah, de lÕAmmon, et du Moab. En utilisant lÕarch ologie et les textes il propose que la formation des tats secondaires ait t fondamentalement diff rente de celle des tats t™t comme dans Mesopotamia et lÕEgypte. Les tats secondaires dans le Levant ont d ne pas cr er des m thodes bureaucratiques nouvelles, mais de nouvelles identit s sociales, des cat gories de roman et des bornes ethniques. De nouvelles id ologies ont t diffus es par la culture mat rielle qui a t satur e avec des symboles dÕidentit , de lÕarchitecture royale par les embl mes personnels. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONSThis paper addresses two questions in the archaeology of the Southern Levant, the nature of the rise of states during the rst millennium BCE, and the organization of both state and society. It attempts to delineate the external context and internal dynamics of secondary state formation, demonstrating that polities emerged by interacting with more developed neighbors but employed new methods of integration based on collective identity which combined elite and local concepts. The paper proposes that archaeology can, to a surprising extent, demonstrate the © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 JESHO 45,4 Also available online -www.brill.nl

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The Rise of Secondary States in the Iron Age Levant

Joffe¹

2002

J Econ Soc Hist Orient

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“…We might point to the two silver amulets discovered at the site of Ketef Hinnom in Jerusalem to illustrate this point. Although they contain microscopic inscriptions on their surfaces contemporary audiences have monumentalized their meaning by incorporating their significance within wider narratives about the history of writing in ancient Judah (Barkay 1992; Barkay/Vaughn/Lundberg/Zuckerman 2004). Despite their tiny sizes, they have become monumentally significant to contemporary discussions of the composi-tion of the biblical texts, the study of Hebrew epigraphy, and reconstructions of Israelite religion (Smoak 2016).…”

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The Priestly Benediction on Silver Plaques from Ketef Hinnom in Jerusalem

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The Rise of Secondary States in the Iron Age Levant

The Rise of Secondary States in the Iron Age Levant

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