Scholars’ Corner: Yadin Presents New Interpretation of the Famous Lachish Letters
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Footnotes
The Amarna letters are 14th-century B.C. missives written in Akkadian cuneiform by feudal princes of Canaan to their Egyptian overlords. The clay tablets were discovered in the diplomatic archive of two 18th-dynasty Pharaohs at Tell el-Amarna near Cairo.
This should be distinguished from the attack of the Assyrian king Sennacherib a little more than 100 years earlier, in 701 B.C., described in “Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures” and “News from the Field: Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season.”
Endnotes
J. W. Jack, “The Lachish Letters; Their Date and Import; An Examination of Professor Torczyner’s View,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 70 (1938), p. 167.
Translated by William R Albright, in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, Third Edition with Supplement, ed. James B. Pritchard (Princeton University Press: Princeton, N.J., 1969).
G. W. Ahlstrom, “Tell ed-Duweir: Lachish or Libnah?” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 115 (1983), pp. 103–104; idem, “Is Tell ed-Duweir Ancient Lachish?” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 112 (1980), pp. 79; G. R. Davies, “Tell ed-Duweir=Ancient Lachish: A Response to G. W. Ahlstrom,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 114 (1982), pp. 25–28.