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Moabite stone
Moabite stone Mo"ab*ite stone (Arch[ae]ol.)
A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A.
Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of
thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and
written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Ph[oe]nician type
of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha,
king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (--2 Kings iii. 4, 5,
27).
Meaning of Moabite stone from wikipedia
- The
Mesha Stele, also
known as the
Moabite Stone, is a
stele dated around 840 BCE
containing a
significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha...
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which describes the
Moabite victory over an
unnamed son of King Omri of Israel, an
episode also
noted in 2
Kings 3. The
Moabite capital was Dibon. According...
- The
Moabite language, also
known as the
Moabite dialect, is an
extinct sub-language or
dialect of the
Canaanite languages,
themselves a
branch of Northwest...
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dialect of the
Canaanite languages which also
included Phoenician, Edomite,
Moabite among others, it was
natively spoken by the
Israelites and
remained in...
- this
entirely new
category of "
Moabite" artifacts.
Since German archaeologists had not
gained possession of the
Moabite Stone, they
rushed to buy the Shapira...
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foundation of his re****tion by his
involvement with the
Mesha Stele (
Moabite Stone),[citation needed]
which bears the
oldest Semitic inscription known...
- the
Iliad and Odyssey. c. 850 BC—Mesha
erects the
Mesha Stele, the
Moabite Stone; the
story is 34 lines,
nearly complete and
reveals the name 'Israel'...
- has a
script ****ociated with it. List of
individual rocks Mesha Stele –
Moabite stele commemorating Mesha's
victory over
Israel (c. 840 BCE) Transliteration...
- the
minerals and
research the
unique climate.
After the find of the "
Moabite Stone" in 1868 on the
plateau east of the Dead Sea,
Moses Wilhelm Shapira...
- Bible.
Sheffield Phoenix Press. pp. 112–134. ISBN 978-1-914490-02-6. "Biblical
Archaeology 4: The
Moabite Stone (a.k.a.
Mesha Stele)". 15 July 2011....
