New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean and Cuneiform

This collection of 15 papers is a significant addition to our textual evidence for the world of the Bible: it presents over 50 inscriptions, tablets and seals from the collections of Shlomo Moussaieff, in Hebrew, Idumean, and cuneiform. Most of these texts are being published here for the first time.

Contents
David Noel Freedman, The Almost Perfect Fake and/or the Real Thing
Ada Yardeni, A Note on a Qumran Scribe
Peter van der Veen, Gedaliah ben Ahiqam in the Light of Epigraphic
Evidence
Martin Heide, Impressions from a New Alphabet Ostracon in the Context of
(Un)provenanced Inscriptions: Idiosycrasy of a Genius Forger or a
Master Scribe?
Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni, The House of Baalrim in the
Idumean Ostraca
Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni, Why the Unprovenenced Idumean Ostraca
Should be Published
Edward Lipinski, Silver of Ishtar of Arbela and of Hadad
Richard Hess, Aspects of Israelite Personal Names and Pre-exilic
Israelite Religion
Andr Lemaire, New Inscribed Hebrew Seals and Seal Impressions
W.G. Lambert, A Document from a Community of Exiles in Babylonia
Meir Lubetski, Two Egypto-Israelite Seals
Chaim Cohen, The Yehoash Tablet
Kathleen Abraham, An Inheritance Division among Judeans in Babylonia
from the Early Persian Period
Meir Lubetski, The Seal of a Royal Servant of the Judahite Monarchy
Meir Lubetski, A Personal Seal: Shrhr ben Zephaniah