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Habakkuk 3:5
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Deuteronomy 33:2
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Habakkuk 3:3
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Date: c. 800 BCE
A collection of Hebrew inscriptions discovered at Kuntillet ʻAjrud (Horvat Teiman), a remote desert way-station in the northern Sinai dated by ceramic stratigraphy and radiocarbon to the late 9th century BCE. The site preserves several blessing formulas inscribed on storage jars (pithoi) and stone vessels naming “Yahweh of Samaria” and “Yahweh of Teman” in consort with Asherah, alongside references to El and Baal. A fragmentary theophany text written in ink on plaster wall fragments describes Yahweh shining forth in earthquake with mountains melting, paralleling the archaic theophany hymns preserved in Judges 5, Deuteronomy 33, Habakkuk 3, and Psalm 68.
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