Endnote 5 – Epistles: When Did Literacy Emerge in Judah?
Shmuel Aḥituv and Amihai Mazar, “The Inscriptions from Tel Reḥov and Their Contribution to the Study of Script and Writing During Iron Age IIA,” in Esther Eshel and Yigal Levin, eds., “See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me” (Ps 40.8) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck Ruprecht, 2014), p. 51. According to Mazar’s chronology, Rehov’s Stratum V is dated to the last decades of the tenth century B.C.E. or to the early ninth. Similarly, the Megiddo inscription belongs to the transition from Stratum VB to Stratum VA-IVB, or to Stratum VA-IVB, which stretches from the tenth to the ninth century.