Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E.

Lawrence J Mykytiuk
Society of Biblical Literature
9781589830622
1-58983-062-8

Mykytiuk (library science, Purdue U.) has developed an identification system to compare and verify names in the Hebrew Bible with those in Northwest Semitic inscriptions. Here, he describes that system.

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in detail, showing the criteria he uses to establish the level of certainty of identification. Next he shows how he has applied this system in the c