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The Gezer calendar is a tablet of soft limestone
Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
 inscribed in a paleo-Hebrew
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet

The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, also known as Ktav Ivri, is an offshoot of the ancient Semitic alphabet . At the very least it dates to the 10th century BCE....
 script. It is one of the oldest known examples of Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 writing, dating to the 10th century BCE. It was discovered in excavations of the Biblical city of Gezer
Gezer

Gezer was a town in ancient History of ancient Israel and Judah. Scholars believe that Gezer is Tel Gezer , a site around midway on the route between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv....
, 30 miles northwest of Jerusalem, by R.A.S. Macalister in his excavations between 1902 and 1907.

The calendar
Calendar

A calendar is a system of organize days for a social, religious, commercial or administrative purpose. This organization is done by giving names to periods of time ? typically days, weeks, months and years....
 describes monthly or bi-monthly periods and attributes to each a duty such as harvest, planting, or tending specific crops.






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The Gezer calendar is a tablet of soft limestone
Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
 inscribed in a paleo-Hebrew
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet

The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, also known as Ktav Ivri, is an offshoot of the ancient Semitic alphabet . At the very least it dates to the 10th century BCE....
 script. It is one of the oldest known examples of Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 writing, dating to the 10th century BCE. It was discovered in excavations of the Biblical city of Gezer
Gezer

Gezer was a town in ancient History of ancient Israel and Judah. Scholars believe that Gezer is Tel Gezer , a site around midway on the route between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv....
, 30 miles northwest of Jerusalem, by R.A.S. Macalister in his excavations between 1902 and 1907.

The calendar
Calendar

A calendar is a system of organize days for a social, religious, commercial or administrative purpose. This organization is done by giving names to periods of time ? typically days, weeks, months and years....
 describes monthly or bi-monthly periods and attributes to each a duty such as harvest, planting, or tending specific crops. It reads:

Scholars have speculated that the calendar is either a schoolboy's memory exercise or perhaps the text of a popular folk song, or child's song. Another possibility is something designed for the collection of taxes from farmers.

The Gezer Calendar is in the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
, along with the Siloam inscription
Siloam inscription

The Siloam inscription or Silwan inscription is a passage of inscribed text originally found in the Hezekiah tunnel . The tunnel was discovered in 1838 by Edward Robinson ....
 and other archaeological discoveries found before World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
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See also

  • List of artifacts significant to the Bible
    List of artifacts significant to the Bible

    The following is a list of Artifact , objects created or modified by a human culture, that are significant to the historicity of the Bible....


Further reading

  • Albright, W.F.
    William F. Albright

    William Foxwell Albright was an United States archaeology, Bible, linguistics and expert on ceramics . From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the dean of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement....
     The Gezer Calendar in "Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research" (BASOR). 1943. Volume 92:16-26. Original description of the find.
  • Sivan, Daniel 'The Gezer calendar and Northwest Semitic linguistics', Israel Exploration Journal 48,1-2 (1998) 101-105. An up-to-date linguistic analysis of this text.


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