Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ianyoung AT plato.arts.usyd.edu.au]

>Also, does any of you know of something written on the Hebrew of the two
>amulets apart from Gabriel Barkay in Qatedrah 52 (1989)/ Tel Aviv 19 (1992)
>and A Yardeni in Vetus Testamentum 41 (1991)?? (hey - that qualified the
>post as not too off-topic!)


There are recent discussions in:

Shmuel Ahituv, Handbook of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions, 1992 (in Hebrew)

and

Johannes Renz and Wolfgang Rollig, Handbuch der Althebraischen Epigraphik,
1995 (in German)

The latter is especially interesting as it argues for (if I remember right) a
second century BCE date rather than the c.600BCE date proposed e.g. by
Yardeni.

Does anyone have any comments on the two vastly different dates (both arrived
at by experienced experts in the Hebrew script)?

Ian Young
Sydney University