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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.

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See “Carbon-14 Tests Substantiate Scroll Dates,” BAR 17:06. See also “New Carbon-14 Results Leave Room for Debate,” BAR 21:04.

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John Rogerson and Philip R. Davies, “Was the Siloam Tunnel Built by Hezekiah?” Biblical Archaeologist 59 (September 1996), p. 138.