Joseph Naveh
List of Publications
(X = book)
(Hebrew articles and books without equivalents English versions are also included)
1. “Khirbat al-Muqanna! · Ekron”, Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ) 8 (1958), pp.
87-100; 165-170
2. “The Archaeological Survey of Ein Gedi”, Phoenix 4 (1958), pp. 56-66
3. “Chalcolitic Remains in Engedi”, Bulletin of the Israel Exploration Society (BIES)
22 (1958), pp. 46-48 (in Hebrew)
4. “A Hebrew Letter from the Seventh Century B. C.”, IEJ 10 (1960), pp. 129-139
5. More Hebrew Inscriptions from Mead Ôashavyahu, IEJ 12 (1962), pp. 27-32
6. “The Excavations at Mead Ôashavyahu · Preliminary Report”, IEJ 12 (1962),
pp. 89-113
7. “Old Hebrew Inscriptions in a Burial Cave”, IEJ 13 (1963), pp. 74-92
8. “Some Notes on the Reading of the Mead Ôashavyahu Letter”, IEJ 14
(1964), pp. 158-159
9. “Une fortresse israelienne du temps de Josias”, Bible et Terre Sainte 63 (1964), pp. 8-21
10. “Canaanite and Hebrew Inscriptions”, Leshonenu 30 (1966), pp. 65-80 (in Hebrew)
11. “Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions”, Leshonenu 30 (1966), pp. 232-239 (in Hebrew)
12. “The Scripts of Two Ostraca from Elath”, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental
Research (BASOR) 183 (1966), pp. 27-30
13. “Old Aramaic Inscriptions (1960-1965)”, Annali, Istituto Orientale di Napoli (AION)
16 (1966), pp. 19-36
14. The History of Engedi in the Light of an Archaeological Survey, Engedi Field School,
1966 (in Hebrew)
15. “Some Notes on the Nabatean Inscriptions from !Avdat”, IEJ 17 (1967), pp. 187-189
16. “The Date of the Deir !Alla Inscription in Aramaic Script”, IEJ 17 (1967), pp.
256-258
17. “Dated Coins of Alexander Janneus”, IEJ 18 (1968), pp. 20-25
18. “Aramaica Dubiosa”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 27 (1968), pp. 317-325
19. “A Palaeographic Note on the Distribution of the Hebrew Script”, Harvard
Theological Review 61 (1968), pp. 68-74
20. (with H. Tadmor) “Some Doubtful Aramaic Seals”, AION 18 (1968), pp. 448-452
21. “The Scripts in Palestine and Transjordan in the Iron Age”, in: Near Eastern
Archaeology in the Twentieth Century · Essays in Honor of Nelson Glueck
(ed. J.A. Sanders), Garden City, N.Y. 1970, pp. 277- 283
22. “The ‘Yehud’ Seal Impressions”, Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress of Jewish
Studies, Jerusalem 1969, pp. 98-100 (in Hebrew)
23. “Sinatic Remarks”, Shmuel Yeivin Volume, Jerusalem 1970, pp. 371-374 (in Hebrew).
24. (with E.Y. Kutscher and S. Shaked), “The Aramaic Inscriptions of Ashoka”,
Leshonenu 34 (1970), pp. 125-136 (in Hebrew)
25. (with E.Y. Kutscher), “The Bilingual (Greek Aramaic) Inscription from Armazi”,
Leshonenu 34 (1970), pp. 309-313 (in Hebrew)
26. The Development of the Aramaic Script, The Israel Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, Proceedings V/1, Jerusalem 1970
27. “The Ossuary Inscriptions from Giv!at ha-Mivtar”, IEJ 20 (1970), pp. 33-37
28. “The Origin of the Mandaic Script”, BASOR 198 (1970), pp. 32-37
29. Review of J.B. Pritchard, The Ancient Near East, Supplementary Texts and Pictures
Relating to the Old Testament, IEJ 21 (1971), pp. 66-67
30. “Hebrew Texts in Aramaic Script in the Persian Period?”, BASOR 203 (1971), 27-32
31. “The Palaeography of the Hermopolis Papyri”, Israel Oriental Studies (IOS) 1 (1971),
pp. 120-122
32. “An Aramaic Ostracon from Tel Ashdod”, !Atiqot 9-10 (1971), pp. 200-201
33. “The Aramaic Inscriptions on Boundary Stones from Armenia”, Die Welt des Orients
6 (1971), pp. 42-46
34. “Alphabet, North West Semitic”; “Alef”; “Bet”; “Gimel” etc. Encyclopaedia Judaica,
Jerusalem 1971
35. (with S. Shaked) “A Recently Published Aramaic Papyrus”, Journal of the American
Oriental Society (JAOS) 91 (1971), 379-382
36. “The North-Mesopotamian Aramaic Script-Type in the Late Parthian Period”, IOS 2
(1972), pp. 297-304
37. Review of J. C. L. Gibson, Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions, I: Hebrew and
Moabite Inscriptions, IEJ 22 (1972), pp. 187-188
38. “Word Division in West Semitic Writing”, IEJ 23 (1973), pp. 206-208
39. “An Aramaic Tomb Inscriptions Written in Paleo-Hebrew Script”, IEJ 23 (1973), pp.
82-91
40. “Some Semitic Epigraphical Considerations on the Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet”,
American Journal of Archaeology 77 (1973), pp. 1-8
41. Review of J. Friedrich and W. R[llig, Ph[nizisch-punische Grammatik, JAOS 93
(1973), pp. 588-589
42. (with S. Shaked) “Ritual Texts or Treasury Documents?”, Orientalia 42 (1973), pp.
445-457
43. “The Aramaic Ostraca”, in: Beer-Sheba, I (ed. Y. Aharoni), Tel Aviv 1973, pp. 79-82
44. “PÔLÐ in a New Aramaic Ostracon”, Leshonenu 37 (1973), pp. 270-274 (in
Hebrew)
45. (with E. Stern) “A Stone Vessel with a Thamudic Inscription”, IEJ 24 (1974), pp. 7983
46. “Remarks on Two East Aramaic Inscriptions”, BASOR 216 (1974), pp. 9-11
47. “Remarks on the Some Aramaic Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues”, Leshonenu
38 (1974), pp. 295-299 (in Hebrew)
48. “Aramaic Inscriptions from Hyrcania”, !Atiqot 7 (1974), pp, 56-57 (in Hebrew)
49. “An Aramaic Inscription from El-Mal · A Survival of 'Seleucid Aramaic' Script”,
IEJ 25 (1975), pp. 117-123
50. “Another Mandaic Lead Roll”, IOS 5 (1975), pp. 47-53
51. Review of F.L. Benz, Personal names in Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions, IEJ 25
(1975), pp. 183-184
52. Origins of the Alphabet, Cassell, London, 1975
53. “Thamudic Inscriptions from the Negev”, Eretz Israel 12 (1975), pp. 129-131 (in
Hebrew)
54. (with Orly Goldwasser) “The Origin of the et-Symbol”, IEJ 26 (1976), pp. 15-19
55. “Syriac Miscellanea”, !Atiqot 11 (1976), pp. 102-104
56. Review of E. Lipinski, Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics, IEJ 26
(1976), pp. 148-149
57. Review of J.B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum, I, IEJ 27 (1977), pp. 179-181
58. “Achievements and Objectives in Ancient West Semitic Epigraphy”, Proceedings of
the Sixth World Congress of Jewish Studies, I (ed. A. Shinan), Jerusalem 1977, pp. 15-320
59. On Stone and Mosaic — The Aramaic And Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient
Synagogues, Carta and Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1978 (in Hebrew)
60. “Some Considerations on the Ostracon from !Izbet Sartah”, IEJ 28 (1978), pp. 31-35
61. Review of S. Segert, Altaramlische Grammatik and A Grammar of Phoenician and
Punic, IEJ 28 (1978), pp. 205-206
62. Review of R. Macuch, Zur Sprache und Literatur der Mandler, Bibliotheca
Orientalia 35 (1978), pp. 326-327
63. “Ancient North Arabian Inscriptions on Stone Bowls”, Eretz Israel 14 (1978), pp. 178182 (in Hebrew)
64. “A Nabatean Incantation Text”, IEJ 29 (1979), pp. 111-119
65. “Varia Epigraphica Judaica”, IOS 9 (1979), pp. 17-31
66. Review of J. Hoftijzer and G. van der Kooij, Aramaic Texts from Deir !Alla, IEJ 29
(1979), pp. 133-136
67. “Graffiti and Dedications”, BASOR 235 (1979), pp. 27-30
68. “The Aramaic Ostraca from Tel Beer Sheba (Seasons 1871-1976)”, Tel-Aviv 6 (1979),
pp. 182-198
69. “The Ostracon from Nimrud · An Ammonite Name-List”, Maarav 2/2 (1979-1980),
pp. 163-171
70. “An Aramaic Consolatory Burial Inscription”, !Atiqot 14 (1980), pp. 55-59
71. “The Greek Alphabet · New Evidence”, Biblical Archaeologist 43 (1980), pp 22-25.
72. Review of L.G. Herr, The Scripts of Ancient West Semitic Seals, BASOR 239 (1980),
pp. 75-76
73. “A Greek Dedication in Samaritan Letters”, IEJ 31 (1981), pp. 220-222
74. “The Aramaic Ostraca from Tel Arad”, in: Y. Aharoni (ed.), Arad Inscriptions,
Jerusalem 1981, pp.153-174
75. Review of M. Bar-Asher, Palestinian Syriac Studies · Source-Texts, Traditions and
Grammatical Problems, Revue Biblique 43 (1981), pp. 285-286
76. (editing) A Jewish Epigraphy Reader – Selected from Tarbiz, Magnes Press,
Jerusalem, 1981 (in Hebrew)
77. “‘Belonging to Makbiram’ or ‘Belonging to the Food Servers’?”, Eretz Israel 15
(1981), pp. 301-302 (in Hebrew)
78. Early History of the Alphabet · An Introduction to West Semitic Epigraphy and
Palaeography, Jerusalem-Leiden 1982; 2nd revised edition, Jerusalem 1987 (Additions
and Corrections on pp. 213-222)
79. “A Fragment of an Ancient Hebrew Inscription from the Ophel”, IEJ 32 (1982), pp.
195-198
80. “Some Recently Forged Inscriptions”, BASOR 247 (1982), pp. 53-58
81. “An Ancient Amulet or a Modern Forgery?”, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 44 (1982),
pp. 282-284
82. Review of A. Bounni and J. Teixidor, Inventaire des inscriptions de Palmyre XII,
JAOS 102 (1982), pp. 184-185
83. “A Recently Discovered Palestinian Jewish Aramaic Amulet”, in: Arameans, Aramaic
and the Aramaic Literary Tradition (ed. M. Sokoloff), Ramat-Gan 1983, 81-88
84. Review of Z. Zevit, Matres Lectionis in Ancient Hebrew Epigraphs, IEJ 33 (1983), pp.
139-140
85. “Script and Writing”, in: The Restoration – the Persian Period (ed. H. Tadmor et al.),
A. Pel’i Publishing Society, Jerusalem 1983, pp. 229-235; 312-314 (in Hebrew)
86. “Inscriptions of the Biblcal Period”, in: Recent Archaeology in the Land of Israel (ed.
B. Mazar and H. Shanks), Washington 1984, pp. 59-68
87. (with J.C. Greenfield) “Hebrew and Aramaic in the Persian Period”, in: The
Cambridge History of Judaism, I (ed. W.D. Davies and L. Finkelstein), Cambridge 1984,
pp. 115-129; 421-425
88. Review of D. Pardee, Handbook of Ancient Hebrew Letters, IEJ 34 (1984), 278-279
89. Review of K.P Jackson, The Ammonite Language of the Iron Age, IEJ 34 (1984), p.
284
90. (with S. Shaked) Amulets and Magic Bowls · Aramaic Incantations of Late
Antiquity, Jerusalem 1985 (2nd edition 1987; 3rd edition 1998; both have Additions and
Corrections from p. 295 on)
91. “Writing and Scripts in Seventh Century B.C.E. Philistia”, IEJ 35 (1985), pp. 8-21
92. “Published and Unpublished Aramaic Ostraca”, !Atiqot 17 (1985), pp. 114-121
93. “Another Jewish Aramaic Tombstone from Zoar”, Hebrew Union College Annual 56
(1985), pp. 103-116
94. Review of J.B. Segal, Aramaic Texts from North Saqqara, IEJ 35 (1985), pp. 210-212
95. (with J.C. Greenfield) “A Mandaic Lead Amulet with Four Incantations”, Eretz Israel
18 (1985), pp. 367-382 (in Hebrew)
96. “A Good Subduing. There is None Like It, An Ancient Amulet from the Galilee”,
Tarbiz 54 (1985), pp. 367-382 (in Hebrew)
97. “A Medical Document or a Writing Exercise? ·The So-Called 4Q Therapeia”, IEJ 36
(1986), pp. 52-55
98. “The Fifth Jewish Aramaic Tombstone from Zoar”, Liber Annuus 37 (1987), pp. 369371
99. “Proto-Canaanite, Archaic Greek and the Script of the Aramaic Text on the Tell
Fakhariyah Statue”, in: Ancient Israelite Religion · Essays in Honor of F.M. Cross (ed.
P.T. Miller), Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1987, pp. 101-113
100. “Unpublished Phoenician Inscriptions from Palestine”, IEJ 37 (1987), pp. 25-30
101. “Lamp Inscriptions and Inverted Writing”, IEJ 38 (1988), pp. 36-43
102. Review of P. Bordreuil, Catalogue des sceaux ouest-semitiques ... Journal of Semitic
Studies (JSS), 33 (1988), pp. 115-116
103. “Some Considerations on the Ancient Samaritan Inscriptions”, in: Studia Semitica
necnon Iranica Rudolpho Macuch Setuagenario ab amicis et discipulis dedicata,
Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1989, pp. 179-185
104. (with I. Eph!al) “Hazael's Booty Inscriptions”, IEJ 39 (1989), pp. 192-200
105. (with Y. Yadin) “The Aramaic and Hebrew Ostraca and Jar Inscriptions”, in:
Masada, I, Jerusalem 1989, pp. 1-68, Pls. 1-59
106. “Did the Ancient Samaritan Inscriptions Belong to Synagogues?”, Ancient
Synagogues in Israel, Proceedings of Symposium, University of Haifa, May 1987, Oxford,
BAR International Series 499, 1989, pp. 61-63
107. “The Epigraphic Finds from Areas A and B”, in: Hazor, III-IV, Jerusalem, Israel
Exploration Society and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989, pp. 346-347
108. “The Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Ancient Synagogues”, Eretz Israel, 20
(1989), pp. 302-310 (in Hebrew)
109. “Miscellanea Onomastica Hebraica”, Semitica 39 (1989), pp. 59-62
110. “Nameless People”, IEJ 40 (1990), pp. 108-123
111. “A Further Correction in the Reading of the Petra Temple Inscription”, BASOR 280
(1990), p. 89
112. “Marginalia on the deeds of Kefar Baro”, in Shai le-Chaim Rabin, Studies on Hebrew
and Other Semitic Languages Presented to Professor Chaim Rabin (ed. M. GoshenGottstein et al.), Jerusalem 1990), pp. 231-234 (in Hebrew)
113. (with A. Kempinski) “A Phoenician Seal Impression on a Jar Handle from Kabri”,
Tel Aviv 18 (1991), pp. 244-247
114. “Semitic Epigraphy and the Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet”, Kadmos 30 (1991),
pp. 143-152
115. “The Phoenician Hundred-Sign”, Rivista di Studi Fenici 19 (1991), pp. 139-144
116. (with C. S. Lightfoot) “A North Mesopotomian Aramaic Inscription on a Relief in
the Tigris Gorge”, Aram 3:1&2 (1991), pp. 317-337
117. Review of M. Maraqten, Die semitischen Personennamen in den alt- und
reichsaramlischen Inschriften aus Vorderasien (Texte und Studien zur Orientalistik,
Band 5), IEJ 41 (1991), pp. 300-301
118. “Aramaic Ostraca and Jar Inscriptions from Tell Jemmeh”, !Atiqot 21 (1992), pp.
49-53
119. (with R. Kotansky & S. Shaked), “Greek-Aramaic Silver Amulet from Egypt in the
Ashmolean Museum”, Le Muséon 105 (1992), pp. 5-26
120. “The Numbers of Bat in the Arad Ostraca”, IEJ 42 (1992), pp. 52-54
121. On Sherd and Papyrus - Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from the Second Temple,
Mishnaic and Talmudic Periods. Jerusalem, Magnes Press, (1992), 244 pp. (Hebrew)
122. “Hebrew Versus Aramaic in the Epigraphic Finds of the Second Temple--BarKokhba Period”. Leshonenu, 56 (1992), pp. 301-316 (Hebrew)
123. “Hebrew Versus Aramaic in the Epigraphic Finds After the Bar-Kokhba Period”.
Leshonenu, 57 (1992), pp. 17-38 (Hebrew)
124. “(with I. Eph!al) The Jar of the Gate”, BASOR 289 (1993), pp. 59-65
125. “Aramaic Script”. Anchor Bible Dictionary, I, pp. 342-345
126. (with S. Shaked) Magic Spells and Formulae · Aramaic Incantations of Late
Antiquity, Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1993
127. (with A. Biran) “An Aramaic Stele Fragment from Tel Dan”, IEJ 43 (1993), pp. 8198
128. (with Yulia Ustinova) “A Greek-Palmyrene Aramaic Dedicatory Inscription from the
Negev”, !Atiqot 22 (1993), pp. 91-96
129. Review of J. Hoftijzer and G. van der Kooij (eds.), The Balaam Text from Deir ‘Alla
Re-Evaluated (Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Leiden 21-24 August
1989), IEJ 44 (1994), pp. 255-256
130. (with A. Biran) “The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment”, IEJ 45 (1995), pp. 118
131. “The Inscriptions from Failaka and the Lapidary Aramaic Script”, BASOR 297
(1995), pp. 1-4
132. Phoenician Ostraca from Tel Dor, in Z. Zevit et al. (eds.) Solving Riddles and
Untying Knots, Epigraphic and Semitic Studies in Honor of J.C. Greenfield, Eisenbrauns,
Winona Lake Indiana, 1995, pp. 459-464
133. Review of Beatrice Gruendler, The Development of the Arabic Scripts from the
Nabatean Era to the First Islamic Centuries According to Dated Texts, IEJ 45 (1995), pp.
300-302
134. “Aramaic Tombstones from Zoar”, Tarbiz 44 (1995), pp. 477-497 (Hebrew)
135. Review of Josef Tropper, Die Inschriften von Zincirli. Archiv fyr Orientforschung
62/63 (1995/6), pp. 277-278
136. “On Formal and Informal Spelling of Unpronounced Gutturals”, in Hannah M.
Cotton et alli (eds.) Studies In Memory of Abraham Wasserstein, Volume I, Scripta
Clasasica Israelica 15 (1996), pp. 263-267
137. “Gleanings of Some Pottery Inscriptions”, IEJ 46 (1996), pp. 44-51
138. “A Bilingual (Greek-Aramaic) Inscription from Ô. Qastra: The Aramaic Inscription”,
!Atiqot 29 (1996), pp. 77-78
139. (with I. Eph!al) Aramaic Ostraca of the Fourth Century BC from Idumaea, Magnes
Press & Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem 1996
140. “A Syriac Amulet on Leather”, Journal of Semitic Studies 42 (1997), pp. 33-38
141. (with S. Gitin, T. Dothan) “A Royal Dedicatory Inscriprion from Ekron”, IEJ 47
(1997), pp. 1-16
142. “Excavation of the Courthouse Site at !Akko: Phoenician Seal Impressions”,
!Atiqot 31 (1997), pp. 115-119
143. (with Y. Magen) “Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions of the Second Century BCE
at Mount Gerizim”, !Atiqot 32 (1997), pp. 9*-17*
144. Review of D.R. Hillers & Eleonora Cussini, Palmyrene Aramaic Texts, BASOR 305
(1997), pp. 90-91
145. “Achish-Ikausu in the Light of the Ekron Dedication”, BASOR 310 (1998), pp. 35-37
146. Review of B. Porten (ed.), The Elephantine Papyri in English, JSS 43 (1998), pp.
183-4
147. “Scripts and Inscriptions in Ancient Samaria”, IEJ 48 (1998), pp. 91-100
148. “Fragments of an Aramaic Magic Book from Qumran”, IEJ 48 (1998), pp. 252-261
149. (with I. Eph!al) “Remarks of the Recently Published Moussaief Ostraca”, IEJ 48
(1998), pp. 269-273
150. “Marginalia on the Inscriptions from Dan and Ekron”, Eretz Israel 26 (1999), pp,
119-122 (in Hebrew)
151. “More on the Tombstones of Zoar”, Tarbiz 68 (1999), pp, 581-586 (in Hebrew).