THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY:
RIP: Reading Obituaries in Ancient Judah (Alice Mandell and Jeremy Smoak). A nice discussion of the Khirbet el-Qom tomb inscriptions which focuses refreshingly on something other than their mention of Asherah. And this is the first time I have seen an explanation — indeed a convincing one — of the "ghost letters" in the Uriah inscription.
Some past posts involving the Khirbet el-Qom inscriptions are
here,
here, and
here.
UPDATE: I forgot to include the authors. Apologies — they are listed now.
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