LEADER 03919nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910968767803321 005 20251117090611.0 010 $a1-57506-594-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000041081 035 $a(EBL)3155487 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538611 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12251364 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538611 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10560404 035 $a(PQKB)10737000 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155487 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155487 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483335 035 $a(OCoLC)922990847 035 $a(BIP)23634516 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000041081 100 $a20080811d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLiterate culture and tenth-century Canaan $ethe Tel Zayit abecedary in context /$fedited by Ron E. Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWinona Lake, Ind. $cEisenbrauns$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (153 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-57506-150-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aTel Zayit and the Tel Zayit abecedary in their regional context / Ron E. Tappy -- Paleographic notes on the Tel Zayit abecedary / P. Kyle McCarter -- The Phoenician script of the Tel Zayit abecedary and putative evidence for Israelite literacy / Christopher A. Rollston -- Writing and early Iron Age Israel: before national scripts, beyond nations and states / Seth L. Sanders -- The Tel Zayit abecedary in (social) context -- David M. Carr. 330 $aWinner of the 2009 Frank Moore Cross award from The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) On the final day of the 2005 excavation at Tel Zayit, archaeologists discovered a heavy limestone boulder with a large, bowl-shaped hollow ground into one side and two lines of alphabetic writing incised into the other side. This inscription was recognized to be an abecedary containing all the letters of the Canaanite alphabet--the most substantial abecedary found thus far in a stratified 10th-century archaeological context in Israel. It evinces the linear alphabetic script of the central and southern Canaanite interior at the beginning of the first millennium B.C.E. The essays in this book grew out of papers presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. In them, the contributors situate the archaeological, geographical, and social context of Tel Zayit and discuss the paleography of the script. They also offer insightful analysis regarding the possible extent of literacy and education in ancient Israel and comment on the degree to which scribal culture may have contributed to the process of state formation. The book is accompanied by a DVD containing a "picture-book" of the excavations and many photos of the inscription, as well as links to high-resolution photos for a detailed study of the material. Ron E. Tappy is the G. Albert Shoemaker Professor of Bible and Archaeology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and the Director of the Zeitah Excavations. P. Kyle McCarter is the William Foxwell Albright Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. 606 $aInscriptions, Hebrew 606 $aHebrew language$xAlphabet 606 $aExcavations (Archaeology)$zIsrael$zZayit, Tel 607 $aPalestine$xCivilization 615 0$aInscriptions, Hebrew. 615 0$aHebrew language$xAlphabet. 615 0$aExcavations (Archaeology) 676 $a492.4/11 701 $aTappy$b Ron E$01865601 701 $aMcCarter$b P. Kyle$g(Peter Kyle),$f1945-$01865602 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968767803321 996 $aLiterate culture and tenth-century Canaan$94472740 997 $aUNINA