Endnote 4 – Royal Signature: Name of Israel’s Last King Surfaces in a Private Collection

Gösta W. Ahlström has proposed the tenth-century B.C.E. king Jeroboam I of Israel (“The Seal of Shema,” Scandinavian Journal on the Old Testament 7 [1993], pp. 208–215), but this early dating does not fit the paleography or iconography.