In:
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, SAGE Publications, Vol. 27, No. 3 ( 2003-03), p. 259-288
Abstract:
Building on previous interpretation of the graffiti from Khirbet Beit Lei, this article argues that a larger number of Iron Age graffiti found in graves and caves in Judah, or ostensibly from such, may be interpreted as expressions of refugees hiding from enemies. It explores the concerns, status, and situations of the refugees, correlating them with literary (biblical) texts reflecting similar language and concerns, or referring to people of similar status and in similar situations. The lapidary utterances, this article argues, give immediacy, while the literary expressions supply imaginative and aesthetic richness to the common concerns. Material, epigraphic, and literary sources from later centuries, and archaeological sources from much earlier, suggest that the historical experience of such refugees was perennial, indeed permillennial, in ancient Palestine.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0309-0892
,
1476-6728
DOI:
10.1177/030908920302700301
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2003
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2068281-5
SSG:
1
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