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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Was it really Jerubbaal's jug?

EPIGRAPHIC ONOMASTIC CONTROVERSY: Experts Spar Over What the 'Jerubbaal' Inscription Really Says. Interpreting a fragment of proto-Canaanite writing as connoting 'Jerubbaal' relies on identifying its first letter as Y. But one expert suggests it's a Z (Ruth Schuster, Haaretz).

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