The Aramaic Inscriptions Sefire

by Joseph A. Fitzmyer and Ja Fitzmyer

Since the first publication of the texts of the Aramaic Inscriptions of Sefire, they have been the subject of much scholarly discussion and interpretation. The three steles preserve the text of a treaty or treaties made by a north Syrian ruler. In the first two of them he is named as Mati'el, the son of ?Attarsamak, the king of Arpad. The several inscriptions of Sefire give us an inkling of the complicated political situation that existed in northern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8876533478
• ISBN13: 9788876533471
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Gregorian & Biblical Press
• Length: 272 Pages