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"Temech" Seal Controversy [Mazar's Revises Reading]
Biblical Archaeology Review ^ | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | editors

Posted on 01/30/2008 10:12:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv

On January 16, 2008, excavator Eilat Mazar announced that a team she is leading south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem had uncovered an inscribed seal that dated to the time of Nehemiah. She read the name on the seal as "Temech" (tav, mem and het) and suggested that it belonged to the family of that name mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah. Soon after the announcement, however, European scholar Peter van der Veen suggested that Mazar had erred by reading the inscription straight on rather than backward, to account for the fact that a seal creates a mirror image when it used to inscribe a piece of clay. He and other critics suggested that the seal actually bears four letters (shin, lamed, mem and tav) and that the correct reading is "Shlomit," which itself may be a name mentioned in the Bible. Mazar has now acknowledged that the seal should indeed be read as "Shlomit." Her comments and those of two of her critics can be found here; we invite other experts to share their viewpoints with us.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
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Here are graphic links to the other four sections of the story:
Mazar s Announcement, Eilat Mazar: The Family of Temech Has Returned Home, January 16, 2008 Robert Deutsch to Mazar: Reverse Your Reading! January 30, 2008 Anson Rainey Critiques Mazar s Interpretation, January 30, 2008 Mazar s Revised Reading, Eilat Mazar s reaction to the criticism of her reading, January 30, 2008

1 posted on 01/30/2008 10:12:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 01/30/2008 10:13:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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3 posted on 01/30/2008 10:14:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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4 posted on 01/30/2008 10:23:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv
Here's another controversial seal:


5 posted on 01/30/2008 10:24:14 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("A dead whale or a stove boat!")
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To: CholeraJoe

Those things are soooo cute.


6 posted on 01/30/2008 10:33:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv
Have fun.

Bop a Seal

7 posted on 01/30/2008 10:38:46 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("A dead whale or a stove boat!")
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To: CholeraJoe

Oh, that’s just soooo wrong. :’)


8 posted on 01/30/2008 10:54:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: CholeraJoe
Baaaat-ter UP!
9 posted on 01/30/2008 7:04:12 PM PST by kitchen (Any day without a fair tax thread is a good day.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Are these letters so symmetrical that they can be read both ways of the mirror image? That doesn’t sound right.


10 posted on 01/31/2008 6:35:56 AM PST by wildbill
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To: wildbill
I just love the <SWITCHEROO> tag in HTML...
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11 posted on 01/31/2008 9:51:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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