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Name of Deuteronomy’s Author Found on Seal Ring

By Josette Elayi

It was at a party sponsored by the University of Paris in June 1984. We were chatting about nothing in particular when a friend of my husband’s mentioned that he had recently seen some Phoenician antiquities at the home of a Paris collector, more specifically a beautiful ring containing a seal that appeared to have a Semitic inscription on it. I was surprised and at first doubtful; I knew that seals with West Semitic inscriptions are usually found alone, not with the ring in which they were mounted in antiquity. Nevertheless, curiosity got the better of me, and I […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Jonathan P. Siegel, “The Evolution of Two Hebrew Scripts,” BAR 05:03.

2.

The other seal was found at Samaria and bears the inscription “Belonging to Zechariah, priest of Dor.” see Nahman Avigad, “The Priest of Dor,” Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ) 25 (1975), pp. 101–105. In addition, a bulla of unknown provenance, bearing the impression of a seal of the high priest Jonathan has been found; it dates from the second century B.C. (Avigad, “Bulla of Jonathan the High Priest,” IEJ 25 (1975), pp. 8–12). This bulla has now been acquired by the Israel Museum.

3.

See Dan Cole, “How Water Tunnels Worked,” BAR 06:02.