Hebrew Student
Puritan Board Freshman
Hey Everyone!
I wanted to update everyone on the situation with the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostrocon. As it turns out, most scholars are now starting to come to the conclusion that the minimalist paradigm is false. An article was written by the excavator of Khirbet Qeiyafa which is entitled, The Birth and Death of Biblical Minimalism. Even unbelievers are starting to recognize that minimalism is collapsing under its own weight.
Also, the ostrocon was published, and photographs are now available. I posted a transliteration of the ostrocon here. However, here are actual photographs of the ostrocon itself. The first is a high quality color photograph, the second is an infared photograph, and the third is a line drawing by Haggai Misgav:
Proto-Canaanite script is much different than the script you might find in a modern Hebrew Bible, so I would refer people to the transliteration I wrote down here in order to see just what the letters look like. Also, the inscription is read in dexagrade, that is, left to right, and not right to left as in modern printed Hebrew.
Anyway, I know that there was some interest in this topic and its relationship to minimalism back when the inscription was found, and I just wanted to give everyone an update!
God Bless,
Adam
I wanted to update everyone on the situation with the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostrocon. As it turns out, most scholars are now starting to come to the conclusion that the minimalist paradigm is false. An article was written by the excavator of Khirbet Qeiyafa which is entitled, The Birth and Death of Biblical Minimalism. Even unbelievers are starting to recognize that minimalism is collapsing under its own weight.
Also, the ostrocon was published, and photographs are now available. I posted a transliteration of the ostrocon here. However, here are actual photographs of the ostrocon itself. The first is a high quality color photograph, the second is an infared photograph, and the third is a line drawing by Haggai Misgav:
Proto-Canaanite script is much different than the script you might find in a modern Hebrew Bible, so I would refer people to the transliteration I wrote down here in order to see just what the letters look like. Also, the inscription is read in dexagrade, that is, left to right, and not right to left as in modern printed Hebrew.
Anyway, I know that there was some interest in this topic and its relationship to minimalism back when the inscription was found, and I just wanted to give everyone an update!
God Bless,
Adam