Professor Christopher Rollston Collating Inscriptions in the Middle East

Recent Posts

• A Stunning Trio of Early Christian (3rd century) Inscriptions from Biblical Armageddon: ‘God Jesus Christ,’ Five Prominent Named Women, a Named Centurion, a Eucharist Table, and Two Fish
• Restorations are *not* a Good Foundation for Dramatic Proposals: Reflections on the New, So-called, “Hezekiah” Inscription.
• The Mount Ebal Lead ‘Curse’ Inscription in Late Bronze Age Hebrew: Some Methodological Caveats

• Tell Umm el-Marra (Syria) and Early Alphabetic in the Third Millennium:

  Four Inscribed Clay Cylinders as a Potential Game Changer

• Deja Vu all over Again: The Antiquities Market, the Shapira Strips, Menahem Mansoor, and Idan Dershowitz
• The Forger Among Us: The Museum of the Bible Dead Sea Scrolls and the Recent History of Epigraphic Forgeries
• The Bible, a New Hebrew Inscription from Jerusalem, and a High Official of Judah
• The ‘Isaiah Bulla’ and the Putative Connection with Biblical Isaiah: 3.0
• The Isaiah Bulla from Jerusalem: 2.0
• The Putative Bulla of Isaiah the Prophet: Not so Fast
• The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions 2.0: Canaanite Language and Canaanite Script, Not Hebrew
• The Problem with Reading the Word ‘Hebrew’ in Sinai 115: An Egyptologist’s Response
• The Early History of the Alphabet and the Recent Claim that the Northwest Semitic Inscriptions from Serabit el-Khadem and Wadi el-Hol are Hebrew: Spoiler Alert, They’re Not.
• The Jerusalem Papyrus: Complementary Notations
• The New ‘Jerusalem’ Papyrus: Not so Fast…