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Ebed-melech
Ebed-melech was a Cushite official at the court of Zedekiah, king of Judah, who rescued the prophet Jeremiah from a cistern during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem.
Ebla tablets
The Ebla tablets, also called the Ebla archives, are over 15,000 cuneiform tablets from Ebla, Syria, written in Eblaite in the twenty-fourth century BCE and excavated by an Italian expedition between 1974 and 1976.
Ebla–Abarsal treaty
The Ebla–Abarsal treaty, also known as the Treaty between Ebla and Abarsal, is a clay tablet from Ebla, Syria, recording the oldest known peace treaty between two states, around 2350 BC.
Eblaite language
Eblaite is an archaic East Semitic language of the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC, recorded in over 15,000 cuneiform tablets from the archives of Ebla in Syria.
Edict of Cyrus
The Edict of Cyrus, also known as Cyrus's edict, was Cyrus the Great's 539 BC proclamation permitting Judean exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.
Edom (אֱדוֹם)
Edom (אֱדוֹם), Iron Age kingdom south of the Dead Sea in modern Jordan and Israel; also Idumaea. Known from biblical, Egyptian, and Assyrian sources; Assyrian vassal from 732 BCE, overrun by the Nabataeans by the 4th century BCE.
Edomite language
Edomite is the Canaanite language of the Iron Age kingdom of Edom, south of the Dead Sea, attested in scarcely 30 inscriptions of the seventh and sixth centuries BC.
Edomite pottery
Edomite pottery, also called Busayra Painted Ware, is an Iron Age painted ceramic ware from Edom in southern Jordan, marked by black concentric circles over white slip.
Egyptian governor residencies
Egyptian governor residencies, also called Egyptian residencies in Canaan, were administrative centers built by New Kingdom Egypt in Canaan during the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.
Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription
The Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription, or Achish inscription, is a royal dedicatory text by Akhayus (Achish), ruler of Ekron, found at Tel Miqne in 1996, the most complete Philistine text known.
Ekron VIII
Ekron VIII is the Late Bronze Age Canaanite stratum at Tel Miqne, biblical Ekron, a 10-acre unfortified settlement destroyed by fire before the Philistine city.
Elah (king of Israel)
Elah was the fourth king of Israel, son and successor of Baasha, who reigned two years at Tirzah before being murdered while drunk by Zimri.
Elephantine petition to Bagoas
The Elephantine petition to Bagoas is an Aramaic letter of 407 BCE asking the Persian governor of Judah to authorize rebuilding the Jewish temple at Elephantine, Egypt.
Eliakim (son of Hilkiah)
Eliakim son of Hilkiah was the royal steward, the official over the household, of Judah under King Hezekiah, succeeding Shebna and leading talks with Assyrian envoys in 701 BC.
Eliashib (Arad scribe)
Eliashib, also spelled Elyashiv, was a Judahite army official, probably quartermaster of the fortress of Arad around 600 BCE, known from the Arad ostraca addressed to him.
Eliashib (High Priest of Yehud)
Eliashib was high priest of the Jerusalem temple in the Persian province of Yehud in the mid fifth century BC, named in the book of Nehemiah as builder of the Sheep Gate.
Elnathan son of Achbor
Elnathan son of Achbor (Hebrew אֶלְנָתָן, "God has given") was a Judean court official under King Jehoiakim, sent to Egypt to fetch the prophet Uriah.
Emar tablets
The Emar tablets, also known as the Emar archive, are a Late Bronze Age cuneiform archive of about 1,100 texts from Emar on the Euphrates, Syria.
Endaruta
Endaruta, also read Intaruta, was ruler of the Canaanite city-state of Akshapa, biblical Achshaph, near Acco in western Galilee, in the mid-14th century BC, known from three Amarna letters.
Etakkama
Etakkama, also written Aitakkama or Aitukama, was king of Qadesh in Syria during the Amarna period, who began as an Egyptian vassal and defected to the Hittites under Suppiluliuma I.
Fall of Ashdod
The fall of Ashdod was the capture of the Philistine city of Ashdod by an Egyptian force under Psammetichus I, replacing Assyria as suzerain around 636 BC.
Founding of Samaria
The founding of Samaria, around 880 BCE, was King Omri's purchase of a hill from Shemer for two talents of silver to build Israel's capital.
Four-room house
The four-room house is a domestic building type of the Iron Age southern Levant, from about 1200 to 586 BC, with three long spaces and a broad back room.
Gabbar of Sam'al
Gabbar, also rendered Gabar, was the first known king of Sam'al, an Iron Age kingdom at Zincirli Höyük in modern Turkey, reigning around the 920s BC.
Gabriel's Revelation
Gabriel's Revelation, also known as Hazon Gabriel, is a Hebrew apocalyptic text in ink on a limestone tablet, probably from east of the Dead Sea, dated to the late first century BCE.
Gad (prophet)
Gad the seer was a prophet at the court of King David in the Hebrew Bible, advising him in flight from Saul and announcing punishment for his census.
Gamilat
Gamilat, also Gamilath, was a queen of the Nabataeans, sister of the last king Rabbel II, named on coins struck at Petra around 70 to 106 CE.
Gedaliah (son of Ahikam)
Gedaliah, also known as Gedalyahu ben Ahikam, was the Judean appointed by Nebuchadnezzar II to govern Judah after Jerusalem fell in 586 BCE, ruling from Mizpah until his murder.
Gedaliah son of Pashhur
Gedaliah son of Pashhur was a Judean official at Zedekiah's court who urged Jeremiah's death in Jeremiah 38:1; his seal impression was found in Jerusalem's City of David in 2008.
Gemariah (son of Shaphan)
Gemariah, also Gemaryahu, was a prince of Judah at King Jehoiakim's court around 605 BC, son of the scribe Shaphan, known from Jeremiah 36 and a bulla found in Jerusalem.