Comparing biblical names, epigraphs back Book of Jeremiah’s historicity
Golub examined collected names from excavated artifacts published in journals, corpora and books to gather as many names as possible.
Colorized ostraca (ink on clay inscriptions) from Samaria, the capital of biblical Israel. The inscriptions are dated to the early 8th century BCE(photo credit: THE SEMITIC MUSEUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
