Associazione Orientalisti

The So-Called ‘Jehoash Inscription’

Transcription and Bibliography

by Giuseppe Regalzi

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[אנכי · יהואש · בן · א]
חזיהו · מ[.......י]
הדה · ואעש · את · הב[...]
ה · כאשר · נמלאה · נד
בת · לב אש · בארץ · ובמד
בר · ובכל · ערי · יהדה · ל
תת · כסף · הקדשם · לרב ·
לקנת · אבן · מחצב · ובר
שם · ונחשת · אדם לעשת ·
במלאכה · באמנה · ואעש
את · בדק · הבית · והקרת ס
בב · ואת · היצע · והשבכ
ם · והלולם · והגרעת · וה
דלתת · והיה · הים · הזה
לעדת · כי · תצלח · המלאכה ·
יצו · יהוה · את · עמו · בברכה

A drawing by Christopher A. Rollston is available on the Maarav journal website.

Achenbach, Reinhard 2003: “Einige Beobachtungen zu der sogenannten „Jeho’asch-Inschrift“. Eine Schrifttafel aus dem 9. Jh. v.Chr. oder eine Fälschung? oder: Über einen erstaunlichen Internetauftritt”, Biblische Notizen, n. 117, 5-14.
Ahituv, Shmuel 2003: “Opinion concerning the authenticity of the ‘Yehoash Inscription’ and the ossuary of ‘Ya‘aqov son of Yosef brother of Yeshua‘’”, in Israel Antiquities Authority 2003.
Altman, Rochelle I. 2003a: “Report on the Temple Tablet”, The Bible and Interpretation.
Altman, Rochelle I. 2003b: “Updates on the Ossuary of Ya‘acob bar Yosef and the Temple Tablet”, The Bible and Interpretation.
Boaretto, Elisabetta 2003: “Radiocarbon Dating”, in Israel Antiquities Authority 2003.
Burleigh, Nina 2008: Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land, New York: Collins.
Cohen, Chaim 2003a: “Cohen’s Philological Analysis of the YI – Installment 1”, e-list posting, ANE List, August 28; reposted, February 3, 2004.
Cohen, Chaim 2003b: “Cohen’s Philological Analysis of the YI – Installment 2”, e-list posting, ANE List, October 26.
Cohen, Chaim 2004: “It’s Biblical – Not Modern – Hebrew”, letter to the Editor, Biblical Archaeology Review 30, n. 3 (May-June), 14-15.
Cohen, Chaim 2007: “Biblical Hebrew Philology in the Light of Research on the New Yeho’ash Royal Building Inscription”, in New Seals and Inscriptions, Hebrew, Idumean and Cuneiform, ed. by Meir Lubetski (Hebrew Bible Monographs, 8), Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 222-84.
Cross, Frank Moore 2003: “Notes on the Forged Plaque Recording Repairs to the Temple”, Israel Exploration Journal 53, 119-22.
Davila, James R. 2004: “Thoughts on Freedman’s Article”, weblog posting, PaleoJudaica.com, March 5.
Eph‘al, Israel 2003: “The ‘Jehoash Inscription’: A Forgery”, Israel Exploration Journal 53, 124-28.
Eshel, Esther, Ilan, Tal, Ayalon, Avner, and Cohen, Orna 2003: “Final Report of the Examining Committees for the Yehoash Inscription and James Ossuary”, in Israel Antiquities Authority 2003.
Freedman, David Noel 2004: “Don’t Rush to Judgment: Jehoash Inscription May Be Authentic”, Biblical Archaeology Review 30, n. 2 (March-April), 48-51.
Freedman, David Noel, Dolansky Overton, Shawna, and Miano, David 2004: “The Jehoash Inscription: New Transcription and Translation”, Biblical Archaeology Review 30, n. 3 (May-June).
Goren, Yuval 2003a: “The Authenticity of the Joash Inscription: An Alternative Interpretation”, The Bible and Interpretation.
Goren, Yuval 2003b: “An Alternative Interpretation of the Stone Tablet with Ancient Hebrew Inscription Attributed to Jehoash, King of Judah”, The Bible and Interpretation.
Goren, Yuval 2003c: “Examination of Authenticity: James Brother of Jesus Ossuary and Yehoash King of Yehuda Inscription”, in Israel Antiquities Authority 2003.
Goren, Yuval 2005: “The Jerusalem Syndrome in Biblical Archaeology”, revised and updated version, SBL Forum 3, n. 3; original version, The Bible and Interpretation, 2004.
Goren, Yuval, Ayalon, Avner, Bar-Matthews, Miryam, and Schilman, Bettina 2004: “Authenticity Examination of the Jehoash Inscription”, Tel Aviv 31, 3-16.
Harrell, James 2004: “Authenticity of the Jehoash Tablet – A Response”, Biblical Archaeology Review 30, n. 5 (September-October).
Hurowitz, Avigdor 2003: “The Jehoash Inscription”, in Israel Antiquities Authority 2003.
Hurowitz, Avigdor 2004: “The Jehoash Inscription Under a Magnifying Glass” [in Hebrew], Beit Mikra 176, 89-102.
Ilani, Shimon, Rosenfeld, Amnon, and Dvorachek, Michael 2003: “Archaeometry of a Stone Tablet with Hebrew Inscription Referring to Repair of the House” [PDF], Geological Survey of Israel Current Research 13, 109-16.
Ilani, Shimon, Rosenfeld, Amnon, Feldman, Howard R., Krumbein, Wolfgang E., and Kronfeld, Joel 2008a: “Archaeometric analysis of the ‘Jehoash Inscription’ tablet”, Journal of Archaeological Science 35, 2966-72.
Ilani, Shimon, Rosenfeld, Amnon, Feldman, Howard R., Krumbein, Wolfgang E., and Kronfeld, Joel 2008b: “Archaeometric evidence for the authenticity of the Jehoash Inscription Tablet”, The Bible and Interpretation.
Irvine, Stuart A., and Isbell, Charles David 2005: “The Jehoash Inscription: An Evaluative Summary”, The Bible and Interpretation.
Israel Antiquities Authority 2003: Final Reports on the Yehoash Inscription and James Ossuary, n.p.
Jean-Baptiste, Patrick 2005: L’affaire des fausses reliques. Enquête au cœur des trafics de vestiges bibliques, Paris: Michel.
Kloner, Amos, and Reich, Ronny 2003: “The ‘James son of Joseph’ Ossuary [and the Yehoash Inscription]”, in Israel Antiquities Authority 2003.
Knauf, Ernst Axel 2003a: “Die ‘Joasch’-Inschrift. Ein Nachruf”, Welt und Umwelt der Bibel, n. 28, 62-63.
Knauf, Ernst Axel 2003b: “Jehoash’s Improbable Inscription”, Biblische Notizen, n. 117, 22-25.
Krumbein, Wolfgang E. 2005: Preliminary Report: External Expert Opinion on Three Stone Items, n.p.
Lehmann, Reinhard G. 2003: “The Jehoash Inscription: it isn’t because it is too much at the same time!”, unpublished short note; Associazione Orientalisti’s Web Site, 2004.
Misgav, Hagai 2003: “Opinion on the inscription known as ‘The Yehoash Inscription’”, in Israel Antiquities Authority 2003.
Norin, Stig 2005: “Die Sogenannte Joaschinschrift – Echt Oder Falsch?”, Vetus Testamentum 55, 61-74.
Prudký, Martin 2003: “Tzv. Jóašův nápis – epigrafický nález století?” [The Joash Inscription – The Epigraphic Discovery of the Century?], Teologická reflexe 9, 5-26.
Reich, Ronny 2004: “Edom or Adam? New Reading Bolsters Case for Jehoash Tablet”, Biblical Archaeology Review 30, n. 4 (July-August), 46-48.
Rollston, Christopher A. 2003: “Non-Provenanced Epigraphs I: Pillaged Antiquities, Northwest Semitic Forgeries, and Protocols for Laboratory Tests”, Maarav 10, 135-93.
Rollston, Christopher A. 2004: “Non-Provenanced Epigraphs II: The Status of Non-Provenanced Epigraphs within the Broader Corpus”, Maarav 11, 57-79.
Sasson, Victor 2003: “Philological and Textual Observations on the Controversial King Jehoash Inscription”, Ugarit-Forschungen 35, 573-87.
Shanks, Hershel 2003a: “Is It or Isn’t It? King Jehoash Inscription Captivates Archaeological World”, Biblical Archaeology Review 29, n. 2 (March-April), 22-23.
Shanks, Hershel 2003b: “The Storm over the Bone Box”, Biblical Archaeology Review 29, n. 5 (September-October).
Shanks, Hershel, and Greenstein, Edward L. 2003: “Assessing the Jehoash Inscription”, Biblical Archaeology Review 29, n. 3 (May-June), 26-31.
Talshir, David 2004: “The Jehoash Inscription: A Philological Angle” [Hebrew], Leshonenu La‘am 54, 3-10.

Keywords: jehoash inscription, jehoash tablet, joash inscription, joash tablet, temple inscription, temple tablet, yehoash inscription, yehoash tablet, yoash inscription, yoash tablet.

Cited in: Norin 2005: 64 n. 13; Cohen 2007: 223 n. 1.