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Uzziah’s Reinterment Inscription
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Uzziah’s reinterment inscription, Jerusalem. King Uzziah (reigned 785–733 BCE) was a leper and therefore, according to the book of Chronicles, could not be buried in the royal tombs and so had to be…

Places:

Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Roman Period, 1st Century BCE or CE

Subjects:

Health, Burial, Monarchy, Jerusalem, Cemetery

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Inscriptions, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, History
Square inscribed with Aramaic writing.
Daniel’s Prayer upon Learning the Secret of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
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The mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision; then Daniel blessed the God of Heaven. Daniel spoke up and said: “Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, For wisdom and power are…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Prayer, Monarchy, Wisdom, Dreams, Monotheism

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Prayer & Liturgy, Biblical Poetry, Religion & Theology
Aramaic Proverbs: The Words of Ahiqar
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The Words of Ahiqar are the teachings that Ahiqar, the wise scribe who was chief counselor to the kings of Assyria, imparted to his nephew and adopted son Nadin.

Places:

Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Fifth Century BCE

Subjects:

Wisdom, Monarchy, Politics, Family, Ethics

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature
Tel Dan Inscription
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[ . . . . . . . . ] and cut (a treaty) [ [ . . . e]l my father went up [against him when] he was fighting in Abe[l?] And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors (or: eternal place)]. And the…

Places:

Dan, Land of Israel (Tel Dan, Israel)

Date:

Late 9th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Monarchy, War, Violence

Categories:

History, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions, Visual & Material Culture
Stone tablet in two fragments inscribed with Hebrew writing.