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    The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the society...
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  • Inschriften, from which inscriptions are often referenced as KAI n (for a number n). Ancient Hebrew writings Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions Classification...
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  • (more specifically, an abjad) known in modern times from the Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. The name comes from...
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    Canaan (redirect from Canaanites)
    letters–localities and their rulers Archaeology of Israel Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions Canaanite gate of ancient Tell Canaanite shift Curse of Canaan...
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  • Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften (category Canaanite inscriptions)
    (in English, Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions), or KAI, is the standard source for the original text of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions not contained...
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  • 5 in) ostracon believed to be the longest Proto-Canaanite inscription ever found. Other inscriptions include the Lachish Dagger, Gezer Sherd, Schechem...
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  • Moabite language (category Canaanite languages)
    for “Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions.” It is to be read from right to left. The following table presents the first four lines of the inscription of Mesha...
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    Semitic dialect, and has provoked much debate among scholars and had a strong impact on the study of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions. The excavation...
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    Nimrud ivories (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    woman. A number of the ivories contain Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions – a few contain a number of words, and many more contain single letters. Some...
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  • Old Aramaic (Aramaic: 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀, romanized: Ārāmāyā) refers to the earliest stage of the Aramaic language, known from the Aramaic inscriptions discovered...
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    Philistia (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    from roughly 1200 BC onwards settled in the area and mixed with the local Canaanite population, and came to be known as Peleset, or Philistines. At its...
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    and were catalogued by Giorgio Levi Della Vida. A subset of the inscriptions feature in all the major corpuses of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions,...
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    the region of Gaza dates back to the ancient Egyptian fortress built in Canaanite territory at Tell es-Sakan, to the south of present-day Gaza. The site...
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    underwent a major expansion c.1600 BCE, under the Canaanites. In Stratum XI (MB IIB) both the Upper City and Lower City was occupied. Later, the occupation...
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  • (Canaanite and Aramaic), East Semitic (Akkadian, its Assyrian and Babylonian dialects, Eblaite) and Southwest (Arabic, Old South Arabian languages and...
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    Arabic and Hebrew) or Shalim, the god of dusk in the Canaanite religion. Archaeological evidence suggests that by the 17th century BCE, the Canaanites had...
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  • god or goddess. It appears from their inscriptions and their names that the Arameans worshipped Canaanite and Mesopotamian gods such as Hadad, Sin, Ishtar...
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    Herodian kingdom (category Jews and Judaism in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)
    BCE. The Hasmonean Queen, Salome Alexandra, had recently died and her sons, Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II, turned against each other in a civil war. In...
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    accurate and has been disputed by scholars. Canaanite Mesopotamian Near East folk religions: 240–243  Rollston, Chris A. (2010). Writing and Literacy...
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    Late Iron Age I/Early Iron Age II Old Canaanite Inscription from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath, Israel: Palaeography, Dating, and Historical-Cultural Significance"....
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     26–62. ISBN 9789004398535. Gzella, Holger (2015). A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam. Leiden-Boston: Brill. ISBN 9789004285101...
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  • Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften, standard source for text of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions not contained in Tanakh or Old Testament Kai stingaree (Urolophus...
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    Bronze Age to the first centuries CE. Canaanite religion was polytheistic and, in some cases, monolatristic. Canaanites believed that following physical death...
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  • Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (category Canaanite writing systems)
    in inscriptions of Canaanite languages (incl. pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew) from the region of Southern Canaan, also known as biblical Israel and Judah...
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    years. Gaza was ruled, destroyed and repopulated by various dynasties, empires, and peoples. Originally a Canaanite settlement, it came under the control...
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    Samaria (category Samaritan culture and history)
    Aramaic, cuneiform and Greek inscriptions, as well as pottery remains, coins, sculpture, figurines, scarabs and seals, faience, amulets, beads and glass...
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    Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) (category Ancient Israel and Judah)
    ISBN 978-1-58983-107-0. Compston, Herbert F. B. (1919). The Inscription on the Stele of Méšaʿ. Arie, Eran (2023). "Canaanites in a Changing World: The Jezreel Valley during...
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    Nabataean Kingdom (category States and territories established in the 3rd century BC)
    The Nabataean Kingdom (Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 Nabāṭū), also named Nabatea (/ˌnæbəˈtiːə/), was a political state of the Nabataeans during classical...
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    Gezer (category Canaanite cities)
    bilingual inscriptions in either Hebrew or Aramaic, and Greek, found engraved on rocks several hundred meters from the tell. These inscriptions from the...
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    Phoenicia (category Canaanite people)
    ISBN 978-0-521-68498-9. Naveh, Joseph (1987). "Proto-Canaanite, Archaic Greek, and the Script of the Aramaic Text on the Tell Fakhariyah Statue". In Miller;...
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