Endnote 6 – Some Paleographic Success Stories

Cross, “The Development of the Jewish Scripts,” in George Ernest Wright, ed., The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of W.F. Albright (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 133–202. Note also that in 1975 another dated document of this period was published: a bilingual ostracon discovered in Hirbet el-Kôm dating to the sixth year of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (277 B.C.E.); see Lawrence T. Geraty, “The Khirbet el-Kom Bilingual Ostracon,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 220 (1975), pp. 55–61.^