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    Nadav Na'aman (Hebrew: נדב נעמן; born in 1939 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli archaeologist and historian. He specializes in the study of the Near East in...
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    Mediterranean sea near the Egyptian city of Arish, while Israeli archaeologist Nadav Na'aman believes that the landform referenced in the Bible is the Besor Stream...
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    year of reign, implying that he would have become king in ca. 727 BC. Nadav Na'aman argues that several late 8th century BCE seal impressions from the Kaufman...
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    biblical account of the United Monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II. Nadav Na’aman and Ido Koch held that the ruins were Canaanite, based on strong similarities...
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    mention in the Tel Dan inscription. In May 2019, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na'aman, and Thomas Römer concluded from the new images that the ruler's name...
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    Biblical History and Israel's Past. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-6260-0. Na'aman, Nadav (2011). "The Exodus Story: Between Historical Memory and Historiographical...
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    of Leah Kupernik. Her older brother is a noted Israeli archaeologist Nadav Na'aman. She grew up on Kibbutz Kvutzat Kinneret, where her father was a teacher...
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    probably contained just one letter. This is not universally accepted—Nadav Na'aman, for instance, suggested it as BT[D]WD[H], "House of Daodoh", a local...
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    reconstruction of forts at sites such as Arad and Horvat Uza, explored by Nadav Na'aman and others, is also argued by Finkelstein and Silberman to be evidence...
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    co-regencies were used sporadically in the northern kingdom (Israel), Nadav Na'aman writes, In the kingdom of Judah, on the other hand, the nomination of...
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    own mythology the exodus story of a small group of Egyptian refugees. Nadav Na'aman argues that oppressive Egyptian rule of Canaan may have inspired the...
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    at all be out of place. Regarding this theory, Israel Finkelstein & Nadav Na'aman (1994) note the hearth constructions which have been discovered at Tell...
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  • Bible. Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 694–695. ISBN 0-8028-2400-5. Nadav Na'aman, op.cit pp. 178–179. Vaughn, Andrew G.; Ann E. Killebrew (1 August 2003)...
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    of Judah", which some have stated is a reference to Uzziah; however, Nadav Na'aman showed the fragment actually belongs to the time of Sennacherib and...
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    (1997–2022 with Yuval Goren and Nadav Na'aman; the results were published in: Y. Goren, I. Finkelstein and N. Na'aman; Inscribed in Clay: Provenance Study...
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    typically reconstructed as (U)Rušalim is usually identified as Jerusalem. Nadav Na'aman proposed that the name should instead be understood as r'š (head) +...
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    and Hebrew though not transparently related are not irreconcilable. Nadav Na’aman had no doubt that the term "Hebrew" was derived from "Habiru". The Christian...
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    the Writings of the Second Temple Period (Brill, 2014), p. 128) and Nadav Na'aman ("Shaaraim – The Gateway to the Kingdom of Judah" in The Journal of...
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    Tel Megiddo and several other ancient towns in Canaan had two gates. Nadav Na'aman of Tel Aviv University doubts that Sha'arayim means "two gates" at all...
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    doi:10.2307/j.ctvr7fc18.11, S2CID 211652647, retrieved 18 February 2023 Na’aman, Nadav (1 January 2011). "The Discovered Book and the Legitimation of Josiah's...
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    transcribe and translate this name as Baꜥalry. In 2019, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na'aman and Thomas Römer proposed the common reading of "House of David" in...
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    position of David and Samuel at the former king's expense. Alternatively, Nadav Na'aman argues that the verbal root sh-'-l is actually related to the name "Shiloh"...
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    the Library of Ashurbanipal. It was identified as a single tablet by Nadav Na'aman in 1974. It describes an Assyrian campaign by Sennacherib against Hezekiah...
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    of Kenite groups in the Negev in monarchic Judah. Israeli historian Nadav Na'aman argues that the absence of anthropomorphic and other figurines at the...
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    sanctuaries "on every lofty hill" (2 Kings 17:10). This theory is disputed by Nadav Na'aman, who argues that "gilgal" as a type of settlement never appears in the...
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    (IIR67 = K. 3751), dated 734–733, are the earliest published to date. Na’aman, Nadav (2019). "Samaria and Judah in an Early 8th-Century Assyrian Wine List"...
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    name "Samuel" was substituted for Saul at a later date. Alternatively, Nadav Na'aman argues that the verbal root sh-'-l is actually related to the name "Shiloh"...
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  • and J. Maxwell Miller. London: SCM Press, 1977 says, 'Recently, Na'aman [Nadav Na'aman. "Sennacherib's 'Letter to God' on His Campaign to Judah", BASOR...
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  • 15:20-30, which lists these same towns as part of the territory of Judah. Nadav Na'aman divides scholarly work on the subject into two "schools of thought,"...
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    conquest of the Land of Canaan and Israelites afterwards. Professor Nadav Na'aman and others say that the conflation of Hebrew with Israelite is rare...
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