#kings — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kings, aggregated by home.social.
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Projected Kings lineup and rotation after bringing the Ben Simmons circus to Sacramento https://www.rawchili.com/nba/830117/ #Basketball #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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Grant Napear loses appeal over KHTK firing, could look to Supreme Court https://www.rawchili.com/nba/829456/ #1140KHTK #Basketball #Bonneville #GrantNapear #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings #SupremeCourt
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Why Ben Simmons chose the Sacramento Kings over the Knicks and Warriors to revive his NBA career https://www.rawchili.com/nba/829322/ #Basketball #BenSimmons #GoldenStateWarriors #Kings #NBA #NewYorkKnicks #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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Insider Reveals What Was Behind Ben Simmons’ Surprising Free Agency Choice https://www.rawchili.com/nba/829265/ #Basketball #BenSimmons #Kings #LosAngelesClippers #NBA #Philadelphia76ers #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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Ben Simmons reportedly interested in long-term deal with Kings https://www.rawchili.com/nba/829212/ #Basketball #BenSimmons #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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The two contenders Ben Simmons turned down to make NBA return with Sacramento Kings https://www.rawchili.com/nba/829159/ #Basketball #BenSimmons #GoldenStateWarriors #Kings #NBA #NewYorkKnicks #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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Ben Simmons Returns to NBA With One-Year Contract With Sacramento Kings https://www.rawchili.com/nba/?p=829042 #Basketball #BenSimmons #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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Training camp will be the next stop for Kings’ two-way hopefuls https://www.rawchili.com/nba/828978/ #Basketball #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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NBA: Ben Simmons joins Sacramento Kings with $3.5-M deal https://www.rawchili.com/nba/828912/ #Basketball #BenSimmons #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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Why the Kings Should Be Excited About Their 2026 Offseason https://www.rawchili.com/nba/828850/ #Basketball #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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Kings’ Domantas Sabonis seems to be putting his NBA future in his own hands https://www.rawchili.com/nba/828779/ #Basketball #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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Ben Simmons signs multi-million-dollar NBA deal with Sacramento Kings https://www.rawchili.com/nba/828714/ #Basketball #BenSimmons #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings
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" Bo$$ Papi " 🇵🇷👑💰🎤🎤🎤
The Next up !!!
YouTube @ kingpapi1x
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#youtubemusic #worldstar #trap #rap #kpc #kingpapi #underdog #underground #bigdawg #kings #youtubers #bandlab -
We abolished the demi god #kings, so we created #billionaire kings by voting governments who give them tax breaks and subsidies from cuts in our social facilities. Apparantly people can't live without being subordinate to hierarchical leadership.
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“Kongensangen” featued prominently today, rousing tears in jaded colleagues. Touching.
Since 1745 the melody has been so thoroughly recycled across the world that the citizens of more than 20 lands* (and a few empires) might catch themselves humming along, albeit to different lyrics.
Long before a certain president decided he was a king, the tune was even esteemed in the United States where it’s known as "My Country, 'Tis of Thee”.
* The melody for “God Save the King” anthem variations can be heard in Antigua, Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, England (and most of the UK), Greece, Grenada, Iceland, Jamaica, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, Sweden, Switzerland, and Tuvalu.
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Lord knows what's going on with works submitted to the Royal Commission for Ancient and Historic Monuments in Wales these days. Talk of merger with Cadw seems to be leading to some kind of internal disarray, all round.
So, if you like some corrective work to the 'official' history of Edward I, start here , where official bureaucracy doesn't hinder the whole process:
https://welsharchaeology.blogspot.com/2026/08/edward-i-and-misplaced-court.html
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Today's pick: Hezekiah (12th century) - Anonymous. #art #Anonymous #CanterburyStainedGlass #Kings
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All-time Sacramento Kings assists leaders https://www.rawchili.com/nba/806608/ #AllTime #AssistsLeaders #Basketball #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings #Top5
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King Papi Chulo AKA KPC
" No Place like you " ✍️🎤❤️❤️❤️❤️
Written AND performed by me 👑🇵🇷
YouTube @ kingpapi1x
youtu.be/L0EWtzflDPg?...
#rnbsong #rnbmusic #newartist #worldstar #papichulo #kingpapi #nextup #nyc #sadsong #sadmusic #kings #rnbplaylist #underdog #bandlab
King Papi Chulo AKA KPC - No P... -
Janet Jackson. Sandringham. #tickets #kings-lynn #uktheatre #concert https://www.uktw.co.uk/L377183946/
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Christina Aguilera. Sandringham. #tickets #kings-lynn #uktheatre #concert https://www.uktw.co.uk/L190391683/
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If your fav NBA team needs a durable iso shooter who is closer to 40 years of age than 30, today's your lucky day! Well, unless you're part of your fav NBA team's operation, probably not literally. You might not even care for sports. Right. I'll close the door after me.
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2026/07/kings-to-waive-demar-derozan.html
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The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It was found too difficult. That the executive head of a nation should be a person of lofty character and extraordinary ability, was manifest and indisputable; that none but the Deity could select that head unerringly, was also manifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction. I mean, until the author of this book encountered the Pompadour, and Lady Castlemaine, and some other executive heads of that kind; these were found so difficult to work into the scheme, that it was judged better to take the other tack in this book (which must be issued this fall), and then go into training and settle the question in another book. It is, of course, a thing which ought to be settled, and I am not going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, PrefaceMore about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84562/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #aconnecticutyankee #connecticutyankee #anointing #aristocracy #blessing #divinefavor #divineright #government #kings #nobility #rule #rulership #superiority #monarchy #autocracy
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Merkabah: 850 BC
Up for adoption: a game ruleset that I had a lot of fun designing last summer, inspired by Sam Sorensen’s Cataphract.
In 850 BC,* war is beginning. King Ahab ben Omri’s fatal injury beneath the walls of Ramoth and the sudden demise of his eldest son and successor have left the kingdom of Israel reeling. The foes of the House of Omri rise up on all sides. To the north, Aramean chariots thunder forth from Damascus. To the south, the House of David questions the wisdom of its alliance with Israel, sealed with the crown prince and coregent’s marriage to Ahab’s daughter. By the seashore, the Philistine city-states debate which of their Hebrew neighbours is most ripe for attack. And across the Jordan, King Mesha has risen in rebellion against the Omrides’ oppression of Moab, awakening dreams of independence and reconquest among his peers in Edom and Ammon. The prophesied end of the line of Ahab, so it appears, is nigh.
In Merkabah, players command Iron Age armies as they pursue their faction’s unique military and religious objectives. Realistically simulated logistical and time constraints push faction leaders to divide their forces and delegate: whenever an army splits off, a new player takes control of the detached force. Information only travels as fast as scouts and messengers can carry it, forcing players to operate with limited and outdated knowledge of the battlefield. Wandering prophets and cryptic oracles may help bridge the gap—if the jealous gods so please.
* Actually 852 BC; 850 just sounds catchier.
I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll basically never have time to run this, nor, probably, to fully finish it. So I’m putting it out there for anyone to use as they please (CC-BY): finish the ruleset and see if it’s playable, turn it into a boardgame, vibe code a video game, use the map for a hex crawler—anything (just let me know if you do, I would be stoked)! Here are the files:
- Spoiler-free ruleset for players
- Spoiler-free regions map for players
- !!! SPOILERS !!! full ruleset for GMs
- Very important but I can’t upload this to WordPress (email me): !!! SPOILERS !!! GIMP file with detailed hex map
I think I worked most of the inconsistencies out of the rules, but no guarantees. If you want to try and run the game as it stands, some key missing components are maps of individual regions and little intro texts to send the starting commanders informing them of their roles, factions, known objectives and so forth. So, I say again: if anyone wants to do anything with this, awesome!!!, and good luck.
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A Regal Bird (Sketch of the Week for Week 23 of 2026) https://www.davideriknelson.com/sbsb/index.php/2026/06/sketch-of-the-week-a-regal-bird/ #art #birds #BlueJays #drawing #kings #newsD #newsF #sketch #sketching
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De’Aaron Fox–Mike Brown Finals Meeting Reopens Kings’ Wounds – The Lead https://www.rawchili.com/nba/750740/ #Basketball #De'AaronFox #HarrisonBarnes #Kings #MikeBrown #NBA #NBAFinals #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings #SanAntonioSpurs #spurs #TyreseHaliburton
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Ricky Martin. Sandringham. #tickets #kings-lynn #uktheatre #concert https://www.uktw.co.uk/L521613495/
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Open Thread: Happy birthday to Harrison Barnes https://www.rawchili.com/nba/747994/ #34thBirthday #Basketball #DenverNuggets #DylanHarper #GoldenStateWarriors #HarrisonBarnes #Kings #LukeKornet #NBA #NBAE #NewYorkKnicks #OklahomaCityThunder #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings #SanAntonioSpurs
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#MythologyMonday let's talk about King Lycaon...
King Lycaon had 50 sons. He killed one of his sons & fed him to Zeus (because... idk something about wanting to test Zeus's omniscience... or something?)
Zeus was so upset (which is sort of rich coming from this guy), he turned King Lycaon into a wolf.
#GreekMythology #GreekMyth #GrecoRoman #Mythology #Myths #legends #Zeus #Kings #StarLore
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While we have no kings
Americans built castles
But never kingdoms#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Kings #NoKings #Castle #RobberBaron #RubberBaron #GildedAge #America #StanHywet #Akron #Spring #Poetry #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
May 18, 2026
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Taking it back….
The archives remember kings
because kings built the archivesour names survived in fragments
stitched into the hems of uniforms
pressed into recipe books
buried inside letters no historian thought to unfold carefullythey called us muses
wives
witches
madwomen
assistantsanything but architects
for centuries they edited us down
cut us from photographs
quoted our work without saying our names
turned our bodies into evidence
our anger into diagnosis
our exhaustion into character flawsthey built entire institutions
out of the belief
that we would stay grateful for the cornersbut something is changing now
you can feel it in the classrooms
in the courtrooms
in group chats that turn into movements before dawn
in daughters who no longer apologise before speaking
in women comparing notes
and suddenly realising the pain was never personalwe are recovering each other
like lost cities beneath waterthere is fury in it
but also tendernessthe kind born when someone says
I thought I was alone in thisand another voice answers
you were never alone
they just worked very hard to keep us separatenow the old language is cracking
the words that kept us small
hysterical
difficult
too emotional
too ambitious
too loudthey no longer fit properly
we are outgrowing them
there are women alive right now
learning to take up space without apology
without shrinking their brilliance
without softening their edges into something more acceptablewomen rebuilding themselves from the historical record outward
women who understand that survival was never the final goal
we did not endure centuries merely to remain decorative
we are returning to ourselves
not quietly
not perfectly
not all at oncebut together
and that changes everything
JH
#archives #female #kings #muses #poetry #politics #queens #stolenNames #voices #vote #women -
Archaeoethnologica: Piast & Strange Kings today and yesterday / Piastas e Reis Extranhos de Hoje e Ontem
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/04/piastas-e-reis-extranhos-de-hoje-e-ontem.html
#Archaeology #Paleogenetics #Medieval #Protohistory #Prehistory #Anthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #Power #kings #StrangeKing #dynasties #Piast #slavs #Poland #comapartism #mythology #hero #indoeuropeans #articles #notes #reflections
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Archaeoethnologica: Piast & Strange Kings today and yesterday / Piastas e Reis Extranhos de Hoje e Ontem
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/04/piastas-e-reis-extranhos-de-hoje-e-ontem.html
#Archaeology #Paleogenetics #Medieval #Protohistory #Prehistory #Anthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #Power #kings #StrangeKing #dynasties #Piast #slavs #Poland #comapartism #mythology #hero #indoeuropeans #articles #notes #reflections
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Archaeoethnologica: Piast & Strange Kings today and yesterday / Piastas e Reis Extranhos de Hoje e Ontem
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/04/piastas-e-reis-extranhos-de-hoje-e-ontem.html
#Archaeology #Paleogenetics #Medieval #Protohistory #Prehistory #Anthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #Power #kings #StrangeKing #dynasties #Piast #slavs #Poland #comapartism #mythology #hero #indoeuropeans #articles #notes #reflections
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Judah’s Aramean period
A few weeks ago, I was startled to learn about this inscription (and a few more like it) from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, in northeastern Sinai:
Some of the diagnostic letters are on the top line, which reads 𐤀𐤓𐤊𐤟𐤉𐤌𐤌𐤟𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤁𐤏𐤅 ארך ימם וישבעו [ʾ]rk . ymm . wyšbʿw ‘[l]ength of days, and they will be sated’ (not sure about that first aleph). Note the Tetragrammaton on the second line.Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, although it’s in present-day Egypt, is culturally a northern Israelite (= Samarian) site. Quite a few inscriptions were found there, dating to around 800 BCE, and mostly in Israelite Hebrew, which by this time had started to develop its own script, Paleo-Hebrew, different from what was used for Phoenician and Aramaic. The inscriptions like the one in the picture, however, are weird in two regards. First, their Hebrew is in the southern, Judahite dialect, not in the northern, Israelite one. And second, the script is not Paleo-Hebrew, but what I’d like to call Northern Levantine, the sister script I just mentioned that is used for Phoenician and a range of other Northwest Semitic languages—but normally not Hebrew!
There’s some debate about whether (all of) these inscriptions are really in Judahite Hebrew and not, say, Phoenician. But if they are (the one on the image seems clear enough), why the weird script? The editors of the Kuntillet ‘Ajrud inscriptions don’t really know either, but suggest some kind of Phoenician influence in Judah at this time. I don’t know of any other evidence to suggest that, and it seems ad hoc.
But why this Phoenician fixation? Unless I’m missing something serious, there aren’t any consistent differences at this time between the Phoenician script proper and the broader North Levantine script as it was also used for Ammonite, Sam’alian, and, again, Aramaic. Here’s a nice Old Aramaic inscription so you can check.
Part of one of the Sefire steles, mid-eighth century BCE. The quality isn’t great, but if you can find any 𐤅 w‘s or 𐤊 k‘s (try the bottom left quarter), those are the shapes that look different from Paleo-Hebrew that are also in the Kuntillet ‘Ajrud inscription above.Unlike the Phoenician hypothesis, I think there may be sufficient evidence for Aramean, specifically Damascene influence on Judah, around the same time that Hazael of Damascus was exerting influence all over the place:
17 At that time King Hazael of Aram went up, fought against Gath, and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem, 18 King Jehoash of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, as well as his own votive gifts, all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent these to King Hazael of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 12:17-18 (NRSVUE)
This event, commonly dated around 830 BCE, does not get a lot of follow-up in the Bible. But this is overlord behaviour. When Sennacherib besieges Jerusalem and has to be bought off, that’s a major event of the Assyrian period. When Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem (the first time) and takes the Temple vessels as tribute, that’s the Babylonian period. Could it be that at the same time that Hazael was conquering his Aramean neighbours and defeating the Israelites in Transjordan (2 Kings 10:32-33), Judah entered a mini Aramean period? If so, it wouldn’t be crazy for scribal training in Damascus-dominated Judah to teach the newly emergent script of its Syrian overlords.
But in the end, Judahite Hebrew is normally written with Paleo-Hebrew, not a Northern Levantine script like Aramaic. So, what, did they switch at some point? Well,
8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.” 9 King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush. 10 You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
11 But Amaziah would not listen. So King Jehoash of Israel went up; he and King Amaziah of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 12 Judah was defeated by Israel; everyone fled home. 13 King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah at Beth-shemesh; he came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, a distance of four hundred cubits. 14 He seized all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house, as well as hostages; then he returned to Samaria.
2 Kings 14:8-14 (NRSVUE)
This is several decades and one or two generations later: Amaziah of Judah is Jehoash of Judah’s son, and Jehoash of Israel is the grandson of Hazael’s contemporary Jehu of Israel. And again, what we see here is typical overlord-vassal behaviour. It seems fair to say that here, Judah is (re)entering a period of Samarian dominance. Wresting Judah from Damascus as part of the larger Israelite campaign against Aram of this time seems like a good reason for Jehoash to have sent his armies south, perhaps a better reason than Amaziah being a bit of a blowhard.
That provides us with a natural setting for Judah to switch to the Samarian-promoted Paleo-Hebrew script attested in most of the Judahite Hebrew epigraphy. When we next get information about Judah’s geopolitical situation, it’s the late eighth century and they’re wisely switching allegiance to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. While the Assyrians used Aramaic for administration in the western part of their empire (the Aramaic-derived script used for Hebrew today is still called ktav ashuri, ‘Assyrian writing’), I’m not sure they would have cared enough to enforce the use of Northern Levantine all over the place for local, non-Aramaic languages too. You need Persians for that level of organization.
So, between ca. 830 and 790, we’ve got a window where it might have made more sense for Judahite scribes to write like Arameans than like northern Israelites. I’ll have to double check (especially the material from Arad), but I think the timing works out for the use of Northern vs. Southern Levantine for Judahite Hebrew corresponding to Damascene vs. Samarian dominance. Why exactly Aramaic-Judahite-Hebrew-writing scribes would have been leaving (Yahwistic!) religious plaster inscriptions at a waystation in the desert in Sinai, however, remains a mystery to me for now.
#alphabet #Aramaic #Bible #epigraphy #Hebrew #Kings -
Judah’s Aramean period
A few weeks ago, I was startled to learn about this inscription (and a few more like it) from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, in northeastern Sinai:
Some of the diagnostic letters are on the top line, which reads 𐤀𐤓𐤊𐤟𐤉𐤌𐤌𐤟𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤁𐤏𐤅 ארך ימם וישבעו [ʾ]rk . ymm . wyšbʿw ‘[l]ength of days, and they will be sated’ (not sure about that first aleph). Note the Tetragrammaton on the second line.Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, although it’s in present-day Egypt, is culturally a northern Israelite (= Samarian) site. Quite a few inscriptions were found there, dating to around 800 BCE, and mostly in Israelite Hebrew, which by this time had started to develop its own script, Paleo-Hebrew, different from what was used for Phoenician and Aramaic. The inscriptions like the one in the picture, however, are weird in two regards. First, their Hebrew is in the southern, Judahite dialect, not in the northern, Israelite one. And second, the script is not Paleo-Hebrew, but what I’d like to call Northern Levantine, the sister script I just mentioned that is used for Phoenician and a range of other Northwest Semitic languages—but normally not Hebrew!
There’s some debate about whether (all of) these inscriptions are really in Judahite Hebrew and not, say, Phoenician. But if they are (the one on the image seems clear enough), why the weird script? The editors of the Kuntillet ‘Ajrud inscriptions don’t really know either, but suggest some kind of Phoenician influence in Judah at this time. I don’t know of any other evidence to suggest that, and it seems ad hoc.
But why this Phoenician fixation? Unless I’m missing something serious, there aren’t any consistent differences at this time between the Phoenician script proper and the broader North Levantine script as it was also used for Ammonite, Sam’alian, and, again, Aramaic. Here’s a nice Old Aramaic inscription so you can check.
Part of one of the Sefire steles, mid-eighth century BCE. The quality isn’t great, but if you can find any 𐤅 w‘s or 𐤊 k‘s (try the bottom left quarter), those are the shapes that look different from Paleo-Hebrew that are also in the Kuntillet ‘Ajrud inscription above.Unlike the Phoenician hypothesis, I think there may be sufficient evidence for Aramean, specifically Damascene influence on Judah, around the same time that Hazael of Damascus was exerting influence all over the place:
17 At that time King Hazael of Aram went up, fought against Gath, and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem, 18 King Jehoash of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, as well as his own votive gifts, all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent these to King Hazael of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 12:17-18 (NRSVUE)
This event, commonly dated around 830 BCE, does not get a lot of follow-up in the Bible. But this is overlord behaviour. When Sennacherib besieges Jerusalem and has to be bought off, that’s a major event of the Assyrian period. When Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem (the first time) and takes the Temple vessels as tribute, that’s the Babylonian period. Could it be that at the same time that Hazael was conquering his Aramean neighbours and defeating the Israelites in Transjordan (2 Kings 10:32-33), Judah entered a mini Aramean period? If so, it wouldn’t be crazy for scribal training in Damascus-dominated Judah to teach the newly emergent script of its Syrian overlords.
But in the end, Judahite Hebrew is normally written with Paleo-Hebrew, not a Northern Levantine script like Aramaic. So, what, did they switch at some point? Well,
8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to King Jehoash son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.” 9 King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush. 10 You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
11 But Amaziah would not listen. So King Jehoash of Israel went up; he and King Amaziah of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 12 Judah was defeated by Israel; everyone fled home. 13 King Jehoash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah at Beth-shemesh; he came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate, a distance of four hundred cubits. 14 He seized all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house, as well as hostages; then he returned to Samaria.
2 Kings 14:8-14 (NRSVUE)
This is several decades and one or two generations later: Amaziah of Judah is Jehoash of Judah’s son, and Jehoash of Israel is the grandson of Hazael’s contemporary Jehu of Israel. And again, what we see here is typical overlord-vassal behaviour. It seems fair to say that here, Judah is (re)entering a period of Samarian dominance. Wresting Judah from Damascus as part of the larger Israelite campaign against Aram of this time seems like a good reason for Jehoash to have sent his armies south, perhaps a better reason than Amaziah being a bit of a blowhard.
That provides us with a natural setting for Judah to switch to the Samarian-promoted Paleo-Hebrew script attested in most of the Judahite Hebrew epigraphy. When we next get information about Judah’s geopolitical situation, it’s the late eighth century and they’re wisely switching allegiance to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. While the Assyrians used Aramaic for administration in the western part of their empire (the Aramaic-derived script used for Hebrew today is still called ktav ashuri, ‘Assyrian writing’), I’m not sure they would have cared enough to enforce the use of Northern Levantine all over the place for local, non-Aramaic languages too. You need Persians for that level of organization.
So, between ca. 830 and 790, we’ve got a window where it might have made more sense for Judahite scribes to write like Arameans than like northern Israelites. I’ll have to double check (especially the material from Arad), but I think the timing works out for the use of Northern vs. Southern Levantine for Judahite Hebrew corresponding to Damascene vs. Samarian dominance. Why exactly Aramaic-Judahite-Hebrew-writing scribes would have been leaving (Yahwistic!) religious plaster inscriptions at a waystation in the desert in Sinai, however, remains a mystery to me for now.
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KING RICHARD: For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings —
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
All murdered.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 160ff (3.2.160-165) (1595)More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #autocrat #death #fate #kings #mortality #power #regicide #storytelling
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Devin Booker receives no votes for NBA top shooting guard in GM survey https://www.rawchili.com/nba/331668/ #Angeles #Basketball #booker #Brooks #Clippers #devin #DevinBooker #Dillon #DillonBrooks #Green #Houston #HoustonRockets #Jalen #JalenGreen #Kings #Los #LosAngelesClippers #National #NationalSports #NBA #News #Overall #OverallPositive #Override #Phoenix #PhoenixSuns #PhoenixSuns #Positive #PositiveSentimentOverride #Rockets #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #Sentiment #Sports #SportsNews #suns
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#TheGx #TheGxForum #thegx #thegxforum #TheGamblersCrossroads #TheGxBestBetOThaDay #BestBets #TheBestBetOThaDay #hockey #hockeybestbets #nhl #nhlbestbets #sportsbets #bets #picks #sports #sportsbetting #sportsgamlbling #Flames #totals #CalgaryFlames #Calgary #calgary #TheGxSportsBettingForum #TheGxSportsGamblingForum #TheGxSportsForum #vitterd #vitch #vitterdsucks #matthewdobrosky #賭仔三岔口 #TheGamblersCrossroads賭仔三岔口 #montrealcanadiens #habs
#fight #fights #fighting #hockeyfights #nhlfights #ufc #mma #boxing #nashvillepredators #nashville #kings #predators #hnic #HNICPool #CBCHockeyNightinCanada #CBCHockeyNightinCanadaPool #hockeynightincanada #Trouba #jacobtrouba #JustinAnderson #rangers #cfl #cflom #CFLonTSN #nhlom #chat #chats #toot #toots #random👊Anderson(MON) vs Trouba(NYR)🏒
In memory of Don Cherry Rock 'em Sock 'em hockey🍻
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Respond now—or by Oct 6—to State Highways #CompleteStreets survey from #California #Bicycle Coalition.
If you #bike, #walk, use #PublicTransit or drive in 1 or more of 58 California counties, advocate for #CompleteStreets via your input:
https://form.jotform.com/CalBikeCoalition/completestreets
For each county, survey lists some state highways that serve as surface streets in local #neighborhoods.
#Alameda
#Alpine
#Amador
#Butte
#Calaveras
#Colusa
#ContraCosta
#DelNorte
#ElDorado
#Fresno
#Glenn
#Humboldt
#Imperial
#Inyo
#Kern
#Kings
#Lake
#Lassen
#LosAngeles
#Madera
#Marin
#Mariposa
#Mendocino
#Merced
#Modoc
#Mono
#Monterey
#Napa
#Nevada
#Orange
#Placer
#Plumas
#Riverside
#Sacramento
#SanBenito
#SanBernardino
#SanDiego
#SanFrancisco
#SanJoaquin
#SanLuisObispo
#SanMateo
#SantaBarbara
#SantaClara
#SantaCruz
#Shasta
#Sierra
#Siskiyou
#Solano
#Sonoma
#Stanislaus
#Sutter
#Tehama
#Trinity
#Tulare
#Tuolumne
#Ventura
#Yolo
#Yuba
#CalBike #transportation #ClimateAction #BikeTooter #BikeMonterey
#MontereyCounty #Salinas #Soledad #SanLucas
