Category: Non-LDS Sources
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A New Hieratic Ostracon from Ashkelon
The discovery of a pottery shard in Israel with Egyptian hieratic writing including the word prophet, or seer. Read more
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Egyptian Hieratic Writing in the Levant in the 1st Millennium BC
German Archeologist Stefan Wimmer explains the phenomena of Hieratic writing in areas inhabited by semitic speakers. These Egyptian inscriptions written by Hebrew speakers match the description given by Nephi of reformed Egyptian. Read more
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Hieratic Fragments from Tell el-Far’ah (South)
Two ostraca found at Tell el-Far’ah, an archeological site between Jerusalem and Nazareth, contain together seven lines of Egyptian Hieratic, while these pottery sherds could not be dated conventionally, the language suggest 19th or 20th dynasty, “with quite a clear stress on the 20th dynasty” which lasted from 1189 to 1077 BC. This is evidence Read more
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A Collection of Funerary Stelae from the Jawf Valley
Stella 105, found on page 72 is of particular interest to Book of Mormon readers, this stella bears the name Yasma’ ‘il which is an Arabic from of the name Ishmael. This stella dates to the 6th to 5th centuries BC, the time in which Lehi and his family passed through the area. It is Read more