Khirbet Zif; Ziph Complete

Description

In antiquity, the settlement of Ziph belonged to the territory of Eleutheropolis. Geographically, it is positioned roughly ten kilometers east of Hebron, on the route that links Jerusalem to Mampsis in the northern Negev by way of Hebron. Further reading: CIIP IV 3847. Rahmani, L. Y. 1972. “A Bilingual Ossuary-Inscription from Khirbet Zif.” Israel Exploration Journal 22, no. 2/3, 113–16. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27925335. Yadin, Y., and L.Y. 1972. Rahmani. “A Note on the Bilingual Ossuary-Inscription from Khirbet Zif.” Israel Exploration Journal 22, no. 4 (1972): 235–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27925361.