Friday, April 24, 2026

Kondrad Schmid and Jens Schröter Dating the Silver Amulets from Ketef Hinnom to "the seventh century BCE"

  

There is one possible example of a Bible text that has survived from biblical times: the silver amulets from Ketef Hinnom in Jerusalem, which were discovered at a burial site and are thought to date from the seventh century BCE . . . (Kondrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture [trans. Peter Lewis; Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021], 29)

 

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