In the first half of the nineteenth century, Edward Robinson and Eli Smith identified modern day Tel Arad as the ancient city of Arad. Since then excavations have unearthed important inscriptions on ostraca from Arad. The Oxford Companion to the Bible reports that in Arad an ostracon was found...
But ancient inscriptions, scratched into stone or put onto parchment or papyrus or any other surface, including broken pieces of pottery known as ostraca, not only offer insights into the Bible’s history but also paint a picture of how people lived in biblical and even prebiblical times. Cha...
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahio AHIO a-hi'-o ('achyo, variously explained as "his brother," "brotherly," "brother of Yahweh," "my brother is Yah"): Proper names containing a similar form of the name of Yahweh are found on the ostraca recently exhumed at Samaria. The...
be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell...