Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin|Arie Shaus|Barak Sober|David Levin|Nadav Na’aman|Benjamin Saß|Eli Turkel|E. Piasetzky|Israel Finkelstein
Algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judah’s military correspondence sheds light on composition of biblical texts
Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv University|Ben-Gurion University of the Negev|Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv University|Tel Aviv University|Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
significance scholars debate whether first major phase compilation biblical texts took place destruction jerusalem 586 bce proliferation literacy considered precondition creation texts ancient inscriptions provide important evidence proliferation literacy paper focuses 16 ink inscriptions found desert fortress arad written ca 600 bce using novel image processing machine learning algorithms deduce presence least six authors corpus indicates high degree literacy judahite administrative apparatus provides possible stage setting compilation biblical texts kingdoms demise similar literacy level reemerges ca 200 bce