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Mount Ebal (Hebrew: הַר עֵיבָל, romanized: Har ʿĒḇāl; Arabic: جَبَل عَيْبال, romanized: Jabal ʿAybāl) is one of the two mountains near the city of Nablus in the West Bank (biblical Shechem), and forms the northern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the southern side being formed by Mount Gerizim. [1]
The Iron Age I Structure on Mt. Ebal, [1] [2] also known as the Mount Ebal site, [1] Mount Ebal's Altar, and Joshua's Altar, [3] [4] is an archeological site dated to the Iron Age I, located on Mount Ebal, West Bank. [1] The Mount Ebal site was discovered by Israeli archaeologist Adam Zertal during the Manasseh Hill Country Survey in 1980. [1]
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The Mount Ebal curse tablet is a folded lead sheet reportedly found on Mount Ebal in the West Bank, near Nablus, in December 2019. The artifact, discovered by a team of archaeologists led by Scott Stripling, was found by wet-sifting the discarded material from Adam Zertal 's 1982–1989 archaeological excavation.
The mountain is one of the highest peaks in the West Bank and rises to 940 m (3,080 ft) above sea level, some 60 m (200 ft) higher than Mount Gerizim. Pages in category "Mount Ebal" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
A commentary in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges argues that "the face of Gerizim, the mount of blessing, is the more fertile; the opposite face of Ebal, the mount of curse, much the more bare", [13] but the Pulpit Commentary states that both Gerizim and Ebal are "equally barren-looking, though neither is wholly destitute of culture ...
Among the sites discovered during the survey were the Mount Ebal Site (1980) [4] and Ahwat (1992). [5] The survey's findings were published in seven volumes, originally in 1992 in Hebrew, with an English edition first published in 2000. [6]
The Mount Ebal structure, seen by many archeologists as an early Israelite cultic site. Genealogy was another ethnic marker. It was a matter of cultural self-identity rather than biological descent. For example, foreign clans could adopt the identity of other clans, which subsequently changed their status from "outsider" to "insider".