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	Siloam inscription - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siloam inscription or Silwan inscription is a passage of inscribed text in the Hezekiah tunnel that feeds water to the Pool of Siloam in East Jerusalem, among the oldest extant record of the kind written in Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
		The Siloam inscription was surreptitiously cut from the wall of the tunnel in 1891 and broken into fragments.
		Some have argued that the inscription was cut in the time of Solomon; others, with more probability, refer it to the reign of Hezekiah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siloam_Inscription (284 words)

	Pool of Siloam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pool of Siloam (Hebrew "sent" or "sending") is a landmark mentioned or alluded to several times in the Bible, most notably in the context of where Jesus healed a man blind from birth in the Gospel of John.
		The present pool is located in the Silwan district of Jerusalem, just to the south (and outside) of the walls the Old City, at the lowermost portion of the Judahite city.
		The Siloam inscription was discovered in this tunnel in 1880, and is among the oldest extant Hebrew records.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pool_of_Siloam (993 words)

	Pool of Siloam
		Many years ago (1880) a youth, while wading up the conduit by which the water enters the pool, accidentally discovered an inscription cut in the rock, on the eastern side, about 19 feet from the pool.
		Its whole length is said to be "twelve hundred cubits;" and the inscription further notes that the workmen, like the excavators of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, excavated from both ends, meeting in the middle.
		The Siloam inscription above referred to was surreptitiously cut from the wall of the tunnel in 1891 and broken into fragments.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Pool_of_Siloam.html (366 words)

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		Therefore, as 450 feet from the exit at Siloam locates it as being beyond the first bend in the serpentine course, of the conduit, the city wall must necessarily have been carried up at least 100 feet nearer to the east, and probably in the position it is shown in on the plan on p.
		THE SILOAM INSCRIPTION, discovered in 1880, on a stone on the right wall of the tunnel about 20 feet from its exit into the Pool of Siloam, is undoubtedly the work of Hezekiah (see plate, p.
		An interesting fact with regard to this inscription is that it gives the length of the conduit in cubits, which, being compared with modern measurements in English feet, shows that the cubit used was 17.5 inches or thereabouts.
	www.biblestudysite.com /68.htm (3300 words)

	Bat Creek Inscription
		The short diagonal word divider used on the Bat Creek inscription is less common than the dot, but appears both in the Siloam inscription and the Qumran Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus scroll.
		The second letter (D) on the Masonic inscription does look a little like the second letter (Q) on Bat Creek, but in fact there is already a D on Bat Creek, at the end of the second word, that looks nothing like the second Bat Creek letter.
		Bat Creek Mound #3, with the inscription and 9 burials, was "of small size, measuring but 28 feet in diameter and 5 feet in height," according to the offical report.
	www.econ.ohio-state.edu /jhm/arch/batcrk.html (2233 words)

	Siloam Inscription Font (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Siloam Inscription was discovered in 1880 on the rock facing near the opening of the tunnel leading from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam.
		The inscription is actually the lower half and the rock above, an area about 70 cm square may have been intended for a pictorial representation or the upper half may have been inscriptional as well and since lost.
		There is no Tet or Samek in the Siloam inscription so I have created these characters from seal inscriptions of the same period and "forged" the handwriting of the inscriptionist.
	www.historian.net /siloam.htm (232 words)

	The Siloam Aqueduct
		In the Old City of Jerusalem, inside the walls, in the Christian sector, till today the large stone pool serving as a reservoir is shown; it carries the name Breikhat Hezekiah, or the Reservoir (pool) of Hezekiah.
		In 1880, south of the Temple area in Jerusalem, in the rock wall of the lower entrance to the tunnel of Hezekiah, an inscription was discovered.
		It actually occupied the lower part of a prepared stone surface and is therefore judged to be but the last half of the planned (or even executed) inscription.
	www.varchive.org /tac/siloam.htm (707 words)

	Shia News \| Articles: Politics \| Jerusalem Tunnel: Concluded but not proven. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The inscription itself was removed by whom no one seems to know and apparently the tablets of which are in Israeli possession.
		Biblical accounts say the (1750-foot-long 533-meter-long) Siloam Tunnel was constructed to move water from the Gihon Spring all the way across the ancient city of Jerusalem into the Pool of Siloam to protect the city?s water supply from an Assyrian siege.
		With the Siloam Pool and Tunnel as a tourist site today, with a failing tourism, a failing economy and decreasing practice of the state religion Judaism, if the continued abuse of lives, the Bible and science for archaeological digs cans be forgiven on their Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.
	www.shianews.com /hi/articles/politics/0000387.php (1825 words)

	Introduction to Biblical Archeology
		Siloam Inscription: The pool of Siloam was originally constructed by King Hezekiah who ruled from 716-687 B.C. as recorded in 2 Kings 20:20:
		An inscription was discovered in 1880 at the sight of the pool of Siloam describing how two teams of Jewish tunnelers digging towards one another, finally met to finish the construction of the tunnel.
		While the tunnelers were working with their picks, each toward the other, and while there was still 5 feet of rock to go through, the rock split to the south and to the north, and the voices of each were heard calling one to another.
	www.truthnet.org /biblicalarcheology/introduction (6776 words)

	The Jehoash Inscription: An Evaluative Summary - By Stuart A. Irvine and Charles David Isbell
		It is correct to note that the earliest inscriptional attestation to final w for this suffix in the archaeological record derives from the era between the sixth- and third-centuries BCE, and becomes common only with the documents from Qumran, the oldest of which are from the third-second centuries BCE.
		Scholars generally deny the use of vowel letters in the ninth and tenth centuries, but the inscriptional evidence for these periods is too meager to sustain their view as an absolute orthographic rule.
		Particularly because epigraphists have no other ninth-century royal inscription with which to compare an inscription like "Jehoash," it is apparently not an impossibility that a modern forger could create an inscription with letters close enough and language appropriate enough to preclude scholarly unanimity and certainty.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/Irvine_Isbell_Jehoash2.htm (3229 words)

	Zion
		Therefore, as 450 feet from the exit at Siloam locates it as being beyond the first bend in the serpentine course, of the conduit, the city wall must necessarily have been carried up at least 100 feet nearer to the east, and probably in the position it is shown in on plan
		THE SILOAM INSCRIPTION, discovered in 1880, on a stone on the right wall of the tunnel about 20 feet from its exit into the Pool of Siloam, is undoubtedly the work of Hezekiah (see plate below).
		If we knew for certain that the exact points from which Hezekiah measured exactly corresponded with those of the moderns, then we should be able to settle the vexed question as to the length of the cubit used, at all events in secular matters, by King Hezekiah.
	hammer.prohosting.com /~eyes2see/68.html (3427 words)

	Our Jerusalem.com -
		Israeli scientists carrying out carbon-14 analysis on wood, coal and ash found in the plaster walls of Jerusalem’s ancient Siloam Tunnel, and running isotopic tests on the uranium and thorium present in stalactites on the tunnel’s ceiling, have determined that the tunnel was hewn around 700 B.C.–corroborating the Bible.
		The Siloam Tunnel, also called Hezekiah’s Tunnel, snakes its way for about a third of a mile south from the Gihon Spring to the Siloam pool–a reservoir that was inside the walls of Hezekiah’s Jerusalem, in the section of the city known as the City of David.
		An ancient 100-word inscription discovered in 1880 describes the construction of the tunnel; the paleography–the shape and stance of the letters–in the inscription pointed to Hezekiah’s time, but assigning a firm date to the tunnel had to await modern scientific analysis.
	www.ourjerusalem.com /ourjerusalem/story/oj20031214.html (331 words)

	Siloam Inscription (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The inscription was discovered in 1880 by a boy who was bathing in the waters of the Gihon Spring, and was studied by Conrad Schick, one of the first explorers of Jerusalem.
		Engraved in the rock, the inscription describes the meeting of the two groups of hewers who had begun digging from opposite ends of the tunnel.
		the hewers hacked each toward the other, ax against ax, and the water flowed from the spring to the pool, a distance of 1,200 cubits..." The inscription is now in the Istanbul Museum.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Archaeology/Siloam.html (121 words)

	ISTANBUL ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM
		- Stone inscription removed from Hezekiah’s tunnel in Jerusalem shortly after it was discovered in 1880 CE.
		- Stone inscription from the temple in Jerusalem, forbidding Gentiles to enter under penalty of death.
		Only two known copies exist; the other (a partial and less-well preserved one) is in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem.
	www.ephesusmeeting.com /istanbul.asp (186 words)

	Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shebna lintel, from the tomb of a royal steward found in Siloam, dates to the 7th century BCE.
		The common ancestor of Hebrew and Phoenician is called Canaanite, and was the first to use a Semitic alphabet distinct from Egyptian.
		One ancient document is the famous Moabite Stone written in the Moabite dialect; the Siloam Inscription, found near Jerusalem, is an early example of Hebrew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hebrew_language (5492 words)

	Pool of Siloam
		The Pool of Siloam is the ancient termination point for King Hezekiah’s famous tunnel that brought water from the Gihon Spring at the floor of the Kidron Valley into the City of Jerusalem.
		The famous Siloam Inscription commemorates the engineering marvel that brought water to the Pool of Siloam and protected Jerusalem’s water supply in the event of siege.
		In the time of Jesus, the Pool of Siloam was the site where Christ healed the blind man by having him cake mud and saliva in his eyes and then wash his eyes in the pool (John 9:1-7).
	www.allaboutarchaeology.org /pool-of-siloam-faq.htm (244 words)

	Inscriptions from Biblical Times Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Gezer calendar is the earliest epigraphic inscriptions in biblical Hebrew.
		Since the Philistines, Ammonites, and Edomites are vilified in the Hebrew Bible, the select inscriptions that we possess provide a great deal of contrary light on the relationship between the Ammonites and Israelites, The inscriptions also raise interesting questions as to the genetic relationship of the languages.
		The inscriptions from Deir Alla are extremely important to biblical history and to our understanding of the history of biblical Hebrew.
	faculty.washington.edu /snoegel/Heb42802.syll.html (1054 words)

	Siloam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		n 1880, some young boys wading in the pool of Siloam found what appeared to be a written inscription 19 feet into the conduit.
		The discovery turned out to be an inscription commemorating the completion of the very tunnel 2 Kings 20:20 described.
		Beginning at separate ends 1770 feet apart, the ancient engineers dug this tunnel through solid rock at an average height of six feet meeting in the middle.
	home.att.net /~kmpope/Siloam.html (300 words)

	Paleo-Hebrew Fonts
		Since the Masoretic text does not use word dividers, and many ancient Hebrew inscriptions do, the "period" key has been used for the word divider dot, both upper and lower case.
		Also, since many ancient inscriptions have missing text, the bracket keys (upper case "9" and "0") have been used for brackets so that reconstructed text can be set off from certain text.
		A balance has been sought between using the letter forms most common to a particular inscription and showing the variety of letter forms that appear in it.
	www.bibleplaces.com /paleohebrewfonts.htm (318 words)

	Dating of King Hezekiah´s Tunnel Verified by Scientists
		In this case, the scientists used measurements of carbon-14 for dating organic material within the plaster of the Siloam Tunnel, as well as uranium-thorium for dating stalactites which grew in the tunnel since its construction.
		The presumption that King Hezekiah constructed the Siloam Tunnel was based until today upon the Biblical text itself and the characteristics of the Siloam inscription (located in a museum in Istanbul), although the inscription does not say who constructed the tunnel.
		The Siloam Tunnel is one of the oldest structures in use up to the present day.
	innovations-report.com /html/reports/earth_sciences/report-21220.html (426 words)

	Holy Land Photos
		The Siloam Inscription was found about 20 ft. [m.] inside the tunnel from this exit.
		The Pool of Siloam has undergone many changes over the years, but in the New Testament, a man who was blind was told by Jesus to go wash his eyes in this pool (John 9:1–12).
		In addition, during the Feast of Tabernacles water was drawn from this pool for use in the Temple rituals.
	www.holylandphotos.org /browse.asp?ImageID=IJOTHT07&SiteID=90 (121 words)

	Hezekiah's Tunnel
		The inscription (called the Siloam Inscription) was found in 1880 and is now in Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
		(The inscription stated that the tunnel was 1,200 cubits in length, which indicates that the ancient cubit was approximately 18 inches long).
		The siege of Jerusalem and the campaign of Sennacherib are recorded on the University of Chicago Oriental Institute's six-sided clay artifact called the Prism of Sennacherib, also known as the Taylor Prism.
	www.inplainsite.org /html/hezekiahs_tunnel.html (1578 words)

	Biblical Archaeology Society
		Read about the discovery of one of the greatest finds of the 20th century: a remarkable inscription from the ninth century B.C.E. that bears the first mention of David outside the Bible.
		Davies suggests that the critical phrase in the Dan inscription does not necessarily mean "House of David" but that it could just as easily be translated as "House of Uncle" or "House of Kettle".
		Pointing out the errors he finds in Philip Davies's interpretation of the Dan inscriptions, Anson Rainey argues that the inscriptions on the Dan stele and the Moabite Stone sound the death knell to the minimalists' conceit that Solomon and David are fictional characters.
	www.easycart.net /ecarts/bib-arch/JerusalemDavid.html (432 words)

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		In the year 1880 some pupils of a German architect, C. Schick, were wading in a conduit under the walls of Jerusalem, when one of the party slipped and fell in the water.
		It is strange to reflect that, while the whole of the ancient East was littered with grandiloquent records of royal triumphs, this humble boast of a few navvies digging a conduit should be the only one left by the children of Israel.
		The Biblical version quite clearly implies, as indeed does the inscription up to this point, that the advance with all its engines of destruction stopped short, while still beyond striking distance, of the capital.
	www.katapi.org.uk /BAndS/ChXIII.htm (2761 words)

	Easton's Bible Dictionary
		When digging a shaft close to the south wall of the temple area, the engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund, at a depth of 12 feet below the surface, came upon a pavement of polished stones, formerly one of the streets of the city.
		Under this pavement they found a stratum of 16 feet of concrete, and among this concrete, 10 feet down, they found a signet stone bearing the inscription, in Old Hebrew characters, "Haggai, son of Shebaniah." It has been asked, Might not this be the actual seal of Haggai the prophet?
		We know that he was in Jerusalem after the Captivity; and it is somewhat singular that he alone of all the minor prophets makes mention of a signet (Hag 2:23).
	www.sacred-texts.com /bib/ebd/ebd343.htm (1084 words)

	PaleoJudaica.com
		Called an ostracon, the clay pieces bore an inscription that was basically a marriage contract, quite similar to the one used by Jews to this day called a ketuba.
		As for the Siloam inscription: the vocalized form of R(HW would have been *Ri(iHU (with the normal u-vowel before the suffix assimiliated to the i of the noun, probably under the influence of the gutteral.
		Conclusion: it looks to me as though the inscription was written by someone who was not thinking in ancient Hebrew (Modern Hebrew seems most likely) and who tried to adjust the vocabulary and orthography to fit the ancient language, but who did not entirely succeed.
	paleojudaica.blogspot.com /2004_02_29_paleojudaica_archive.html (7117 words)

	Hez-Tun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The waters of the Gihon were diverted into the Gai wadi by means of a tunnel 533 meters (581 yards) long, which was hewed from both ends simultaneously, probably along the course of a natural cleft in the rock.
		An inscription in the rock at the end of the tunnel describes the completion of the project.
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	www.biblicalheritage.org /Places/hez-tun.htm (328 words)

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