Tag: West Semitic epigraphy

  • The Siloam Tunnel Inscription: A Multimodal Reading

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    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…