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Volume 3: Archival Documents from the Biblical World The Context of Scripture illuminatingly presents the multi-faceted world of ancient writing that forms the colourful background to the literature of the Hebrew Bible. Designed as a thorough and durable reference work for all engaged in the study of the bible and the ancient Near East, and involving many of the world's outstanding scholars in...

The texts on ostraca are principally administrative in origin, for the most part letters and name lists, with a few account texts. The epistolary documents either are letters of disbursal (like Lachish 9 above) or they deal with various personal and military affairs (Pardee et al. 1982:24–67). To Elyashib.1 And now,2 give to the Kittim3 three b(at-measures)4 of wine and write down the date.5 a From what is left of the first meal, have one
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