Defusing Pseudo-Scholarship
Spelling Differences and Letter Shapes Are Telltale Signs
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Footnotes
See André Lemaire, “Probable Head of Priestly Scepter from Solomon’s Temple Surfaces in Jerusalem,” BAR 10:01.
See André Lemaire, “‘House of David’ Restored in Moabite Inscription,” BAR 20:03.
Following Frank Moore Cross, I reserve the term “paleo-Hebrew” to refer to post-Exilic archaizing script—that is, script written deliberately to resemble pre-Exilic Old Hebrew without being identical to Old Hebrew.
See “Carbon-14 Tests Substantiate Scroll Dates,” BAR 17:06. See also