Category: Mesopotamian Connections
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The Siloam Tunnel Inscription: A Multimodal Reading
The text carved on the wall of the Siloam tunnel in Jerusalem is thought to be a watershed in the history of Hebrew prose because it signals a “deictic shift” in West Semitic inscriptions “from the king to the message itself” and gives credit for this engineering marvel to the ordinary people who labored to…
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How I Accidentally Wrote a Book about Moses
The wilderness narrative, the story at the heart of the Torah, or Pentateuch, follows the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan—from enslavement, to liberation, to independence. In an important sense, though, the story of Israel is the story of Moses. Philo of Alexandria wrote his De Vita Moses as a biography of this leader and lawgiver par excellence, one arm…
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