0062366742 (N) by Robert Cargill

Author:Robert Cargill [Cargill, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-02-02T22:00:00+00:00

THE OLDEST KNOWN WRITTEN TEXT FROM THE BIBLE

The Ketef Hinnom Inscriptions, presently on display in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, were discovered by the Hungarian-born veteran Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay in a tomb in 1979. Ketef Hinnom (Heb., “shoulder of Hinnom”) is an archaeological site to the southwest of Jerusalem’s Old City at the junction of the Hinnom Valley (“Gehenna”) and the Valley of Repha’im (see Josh. 15:8; 18:16).

Inscribed on the two tiny silver scrolls are early versions of the famous priestly blessing from Numbers 6:24–26 (a blessing I pronounced over my daughter, Talitha, each night as I put her to bed when she was a child). The biblical blessing reads, “The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Lines 12–18 of the first Ketef Hinnom inscription read:

For YHWH is our restorer [and] rock. May YHWH bles[s] you and [may he] keep you. [May] YHWH make [his face] shine.13

Like the first inscription, the second Ketef Hinnom inscription preserves the well-known portion of the Aaronic blessing toward the end of the inscription:

-h/hu. May be blessed h/sh- [e] by YHW[H,] the warrior/helper and the rebuker of [E]vil: May bless you, YHWH, keep you. Make shine, YH [W]H, His face [upon] you and grant you p- [ea]CE.14

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