- The
Sfire or
Sefire steles are
three 8th-century BCE
basalt stelae containing Aramaic inscriptions discovered near Al-Safirah ("Sfire") near Aleppo, Syria...
- As-Safira (Arabic: السَّفِيْرَة / ALA-LC: as-Safīrah;
Aleppo dialect: Sfīre) is a
Syrian city
administratively belonging to the
Aleppo Governorate. It...
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inscriptions found at al-Safirah 16
miles (26 km)
southeast of Aleppo. The "
Sefire I"
inscription (KAI 222.I.A.8–12; ANET p. 659),
which dates to
about 750...
- the Iron Age. The
expressions “All Aram” and “Upper and
Lower Aram” in
Sefire treaty inscriptions have been
variously interpreted but can
suggest a degree...
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either the name of a
place or a god,
comes from the 8th
century BC, from the
Sefire steles, a set of
three Aramaic stelae discovered at the site of Sfire. In...
- 14:18–20", JBL 63 (1944) pp. 1–9 Fitzmyer, J. A. The
Aramaic Inscriptions of
Sefire,
Revised Edition (Bibor 19A; Rome 1995) pp. 41, 75 Lack, R. "Les origines...
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probably controlled Hamath, or was in a
close confederation with it. Also, the
Sefire treaty was
concluded at this time
between Bar-****ah, "King of KTK", and...
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Eblaite names for
these deities remain unknown,
though the Iron Age
Aramaic Sefire steles refer to the
consort of Samaš as Nur(u) ("luminary"),
possibly corresponding...
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plaster inscriptions,
stone incisions, and art with "Yahweh and his Asherah".
Sefire steles (8th
century BC) –
described as "the best
extrabiblical source for...
- Droz, 1984), pp. 113, 132.
Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The
Aramaic Inscriptions of
Sefire (Rome:
Editrice Pontificio Biblico, 1995), p. 70.
Karlheinz Kessler and...
