Literate culture and tenth-century Canaan the Tel Zayit abecedary in context / [electronic resource] : edited by Ron E. Tappy and P. Kyle McCarter. - Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, c2008. - 1 online resource (xii, 140 p.) : ill., map

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Tel 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.

9781575065946 (electronic bk.) 1575065940 (electronic bk.)


Tel Zayit abecedary.


Inscriptions, Hebrew.
Hebrew language--Alphabet.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Zayit, Tel.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Hebrew


Palestine--Civilization.


Electronic books.

PJ5034.9 / .L58 2008eb

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