Endnote 3 – Too Good to Be True? Reckoning with Sensational Inscriptions

See Aren Maeir and Christopher Rollston, “The So-Called Mount Ebal Curse Tablet: A Critical Response,” Israel Exploration Journal 73.2 (2023), pp. 132–142. My criticisms (reiterated in the epigraphic sections of the IEJ article) were first published in a blog post, just two days after the initial press conference. See “The Mount Ebal Lead ‘Curse’ Inscription in Late Bronze Age Hebrew: Some Methodological Caveats,” Rollston Epigraphy (blog), March 26, 2022.