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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782569903321

Autore

Kletter Raz

Titolo

Economic keystones [[electronic resource] ] : the weight system of the kingdom of Judah / / Raz Kletter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1998

ISBN

1-281-81434-2

9786611814342

0-567-34422-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 276

Disciplina

389.10933

389/.1/0933

Soggetti

Weights and measures, Jewish

Excavations (Archaeology) - Palestine

Palestine Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH; Chapter 2 THE DATE; Chapter 3 DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS AND THE BORDERS OF JUDAH; Chapter 4 THE TYPOLOGY; Chapter 5 THE METROLOGY OF THE WEIGHTS; Chapter 6 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT; Chapter 7 THE JUDAEAN WEIGHTS AND THE OLD TESTAMENT; Chapter 8 THE JUDAEAN WEIGHTS AND THE HEBREW OSTRACA; Chapter 9 THE JUDAEAN WEIGHTS AND OTHER NEAR-EASTERN WEIGHT SYSTEMS; Chapter 10 THE QUESTION OF ROYAL WEIGHTS; Chapter 11 THE UNINSCRIBED WEIGHTS OF JUDAH; Chapter 12 CONCLUSIONS

Appendices 1. CATALOGUE OF INSCRIBED JUDAEAN WEIGHTSAppendices 2. ADDENDA (WEIGHTS ADDED BETWEEN 1991 AND 96); Appendices 3. JUDAEAN INSCRIBED WEIGHTS (ARRANGED BY SITE); Appendices 4. THE JUDAEAN UNINSCRIBED WEIGHTS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; Index of Place Names

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a full picture of the weight system of Iron Age Judah, based on archaeological finds, historical sources and biblical



texts. This book offers a complete picture of the weight system of Iron Age Judah, involving a careful study of the typology, date, context, weight standards, inscription and function of hundreds of weights (with a full catalogue). As against the common view, the author suggests that all the weights belong to one system based on one basic sheqel standard. The weights are mostly not 'royal weights' and have nothing to do with Josiah's reform. The 'sheqel of th