Maps and More

Enopoletus Harding (a.k.a. "pithom") called my attention to his recent publication of LMLK maps, which in turn led me to discover many other LMLK-related blog entries he's made over the past year. To introduce others to his work, I thought it would be helpful to provide some links with brief commentaries:

• (ironically undated) Chronology; very thorough, yet thoroughly wrong beginning at "1,600,000 BC", though kudos for "BC" instead of "BCE" since he's not a Christian; at least we agree completely on the Mandate & State of Israel dates; links to LRW G2T, S2DR, & Rosette pages; also to my 1st BibleInterp article.
• March 24, 2011: Is Nasbeh Mizpah?; fine encyclopedic overview; links to LRW Mizpah page.
• August 29, 2011: Reading "The Winged Disk of Judah"- Part 1; no direct LMLK content, but interesting; I was not aware of Stewart's book.
• August 29, 2011: Reading "The Winged Disk of Judah"- Part 2; interesting statement: "Radiocarbon dating almost ceases to work between the 4th and 8th centuries BC..." Almost? Labor-union isotopes threatened to strike?
• August 30, 2011: Reading the "Winged Disk of Judah"-Part 3
• September 19, 2011: Update on Hebron; "ridgid" typo, but helpful links to Radiocarbon & TA journal articles.
• October 21, 2011: Biblical History of Bethel; no direct LMLK content, but he found an LRW Beitin typo, so this link chronicles his research on this subject.
• November 10, 2011: Hezekiah's Reign; "...the three-year siege of Samaria was an artificial (and absurd) construct..." in the mind of an atheist.
• November 10, 2011: The Date of the Azekah Inscription; fine overview of this lesser-publicized of the Assyrian inscriptions.
• November 14, 2011: Curiosities About "Hezekiah’s Tunnel"; curious phrase: "the possibility the fact"; spoken like a true evolutionist.
• November 16, 2011: Dating the LMLK stamps; woo-hoo! I'm famous! "these. Lemarie’s It" typo; links to my 1st BibleInterp article, & LRW Maps, Hebron, Chemistry, Stratigraphy, Lachish Corpus, Timnah, Pithoi, Beth Shemesh pages; "God hardly deserves the poor quality artwork and script..."; like as if an atheist would know what God deserves! Ha! Ha! Ha!; "Phase 5 ... 'Top-Register'(including S2DW)" typo s/b S2DR.
• November 19, 2011: A History of the Interpretation of lmlk impressions; this is his most interesting contribution in my opinion; I was not aware of a couple of these publications, the phrase "traveling salesmen", or that they & some others were now available online.
• November 21, 2011: Was Socoh Destroyed in 701 BC?; "Grena's S2DR, may have been carried by refugees..."; very interesting & original thought!
• November 25, 2011: Why the Lachish III Assemblage Stays Where It Is; another excellent overview of a complicated set of interpretations; links to LRW Rosette page & Seal Sets bar-chart; I had never realized that the Lachish reliefs don't show the city on fire.
• November 26, 2011: Wish List For the Azekah Excavations; if it would be Albrightian to "expect" certain evidence, isn't it Aesopian to "wish" for it?
• December 2, 2011: Why Tell ed-Duweir Is Lachish; a link to Na'aman's 2005 collected works.
• December 3, 2011: Ramat Rachel: Hezekian, Assyrian, Persian; links to LRW Ramat Rahel & Rosette pages, & to the 2005 "Fall & Rise" Lipschits book; "It is clear the Rosette impressions cannot be associated with preparations for any revolt..."; you might want to check with David Ussishkin before you toot that horn too loudly!
• December 6, 2011: Libnah; Tell el-Beidah = Achzib = LMLK pottery???
• December 10, 2011: Identifying Joshua’s Negev Sites
• December 13, 2011: Rehoboam’s Cities; anachronistic link to his May 2012 Map; "clearly" it does not date to 2011; it seems this post "dates from a combination of periods"; his orthography of "seperate" may help scholars determine when he actually composed it, though we can't rule out a "Hasmonean interpolator".
• December 16, 2011: The Solomonic Districts; another "seperate" orthographic datum, separated by 3 days (or 3 possibly million or billion years if you're not sure when a historical narrative refers to ordinary Earth-rotation periods).
• December 24, 2011: Why Gunnar Heinsohn Does Not Understand Stratigraphy; "a lack of artifacts does indicate a lack of occupation" ... or looting ... or maybe they were there, but now are just missing as in: "Some billion years are missing from the exposed strata in the Grand Canyon"; how could anyone not understand stratigraphy when he explains it so rationally?; links to LRW Lachish Corpus page.
• December 26, 2011: The Joshua 15 Districts
• December 27, 2011: My Guess for MMST; "an unidentified town in the Halhul district"; chalk up another one for the dartboard!
• December 28, 2011: Best Candidate for MMST: Khirbet Abu et-Tuwein; UPDATE: easy come, easy go; nice link to the 2009 Greenberg/Keinan Sourcebook!
• December 28, 2011: (Regarding LMLKS) Socoh Used The Shephelah, Not Hill Country Road; links to LRW Home page (probably should've been to SUKE or Corpus pages).
• December 30, 2011: Why Did Hezekiah Not Feel a Threat to the South From Sennacherib
• January 1, 2012: Concentric Circle Marks: Their Date and Purpose; mentions me & Michael Welch; links to LRW Circles page; not sure how/why incised circles would indicate wine age.
• February 4, 2012: Regarding the Excavations W. of the W. Wall Plaza
• February 18, 2012: LMLK Bullae; mentions me; links to LRW Bullae page; if a Bethel bulla indicates Josiah, whose reign does a Bethel x4L indicate? Ditto for the SUKE bulla.
• April 6, 2012: The Destruction of Beth-Shemesh Level 3: Reconquest by Judah after Jeroboam II’s Death?
• April 16, 2012: What Is It With the LMLKs at Beth-Shemesh?; links to LRW Corpus page; original (& colorful!) LMLK pie-chart; "instead of the lmlk system being used for solely military preparations, it was used as an emergency non-monetary means of providing wages to government officials." Was it an "emergency" to indicate the age of wine on jars after Sennacherib left?
• May 7, 2012: What, no Iron I at Azekah?; why would it matter if LMLKs were found in the new survey if Bliss/Macalister already found some?
• May 11, 2012: Rosettes and Judah's Districts; links to LRW Hebron page & Tel Aviv vol. 38 #1 by Lipschits et al.
• May 14, 2012: Beitin: Its Size and History; links to LRW x4L page.
• May 15, 2012: Operation LMLK Map; links to LRW Corpus page; aren't all great ideas based on the work of young-Earth creationists?
• May 17, 2012: The LMLK Map Is Almost Ready
• May 18, 2012: The LMLK Map!; 2 original maps showing multi-colored Pac-Men eating ancient Judah; links to LRW Generic page.
• May 18, 2012: Planning to Expand LMLK Map; tersest blog post in the history of the world.
• May 19, 2012: Khirbet Abu et-Tuwein: MMST After All?; links to LRW Chemistry page; "the jars were sent from Lachish into the central hill country, then back to Lachish, and from there being sent to the other great lmlk-impression-centers"; then one jar said to another, "I just flew in from Lachish, & boy are my arms tired..."
• May 19, 2012: "The Archaeology of the Days of Manasseh" and the Date of the Rosette Jar-Marks; "Lipschits's suggestion ... is simply bizarre..."; links to PEQ v139 #2 (2007) by Thareani-Sussely.
• May 21, 2012: A Fortified Storehouse During the Hezekian Revolt?; links to LRW Ramat Rahel & Circles pages; "there is no point in independently moving hundreds of store-jars from a capital city to a fortified storehouse just outside the capital" but there is a point in moving hundreds of them from Lachish to the central hill country, then back to Lachish, then to "other great lmlk-impression-centers"???
• May 22, 2012: The LMLK Map, Cursory Edition; another original map, this time featuring little Pac-Babies eating leftovers; links to LRW x4C page.
• May 22, 2012: 412 Yh(w)d Impressions Over Over 300 years; it's necessary for me to point out a "neccecary" typo.
• May 23, 2012: Number of Provenanced LMLK Bullae Climbs to Two
• May 25, 2012: Why ABR Should Give Up On the el-Bireh-Bethel Equation; links to LRW Nisya-handle page
• May 26, 2012: Lions: The Seekrit Impressions; okay, I confess: the first time I read this post, I was stumped--unable to figure out how the ancient site of Seekrit was related to any lion stamps...
• May 29, 2012: I Am the Thousandth Visitor To the Home Page of the lmlk Research Website; links to LRW Bullae page; I am very grateful for people like you who have visited the LRW & found it useful, but unfortunately many of the counters are under-valued, having been reset due to unknown circumstances; the true value for the Home page is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000, but we'll never know; note that several thousand of those hits were probably from me & Michael Welch; the majority of the others are probably from people who mistyped "MLK" (Martin Luther King).
• May 29, 2012: Fiscal Bullae: The ‘Missing Link’ Between Rosettes and Mwshs?; links to LRW Bullae & Rosette pages.

Kidding aside, I think it's wonderful that Mr. Harding is researching these fascinating subjects, sharing his thoughts with everyone, & that he was able to make use of some info from the LMLK Research website.



G.M. Grena