Text Treasures: Gezer Calendar

The so-called Gezer Calendar is a small limestone slab inscribed with a list of agricultural activities covering one full year. Thought to date from the tenth century BCE, it is one of the earliest known Canaanite inscriptions from Judah. Some would claim it is the earliest known inscription in Old Hebrew. The text reads: His two months (are olive) harvest, his two months (are) grain planting; his two months (are) late planting; his month (is) hoeing up of flax; his month (is) barley harvest; his month (is) harvest and festivity; his two months (are) vine-tending; his month (is) summer fruit. […]