The October issue of the American Journal of Semitic languages will contain an article by Dr. Julius L. Siegel, formerly of the University of Chicago, and at present connected with the Humboldt Boulevard Temple here, offering an original interpretation of the Sinai Inscriptions.
These inscriptions have been interpreted as containing references to Moses and the Exodus by some scholars, and by others as belonging to the 19th century B.C.E. In his article, Dr. Siegel holds that at least those containing the term, N.S.B. belong to the period of David and Solomon and thereafter and were placed in the temple of Baaloth in the Sinai peninsula by the Hebrew governors who governed the entire region for David and his successors down to the days of King Jehoshapat.
This interpretation Dr. Siegel supports with a number of parallelisms between the inscriptions and passages in the Kings and the Chronicles.
An abstract of Dr. Siegel’s article was read before the Egyptology section of the American Oriental Society at its annual meeting in Chicago.
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