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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0237962
	Forensic document examination and algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judahite biblical period inscriptions reveal significant literacy level
	Shaus, Arie; Gerber, Yana; Faigenbaum-Golovin, Shira; Sober, Barak; Piasetzky, Eli; Finkelstein, Israel
通讯作者	Shaus, A ; Faigenbaum-Golovin, S
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2020
卷号	15 期号:9
英文摘要	Arad is a well preserved desert fort on the southern frontier of the biblical kingdom of Judah. Excavation of the site yielded over 100 Hebrew ostraca (ink inscriptions on potsherds) dated to ca. 600 BCE, the eve of Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem. Due to the site's isolation, small size and texts that were written in a short time span, the Arad corpus holds important keys to understanding dissemination of literacy in Judah. Here we present the handwriting analysis of 18 Arad inscriptions, including more than 150 pair-wise assessments of writer's identity. The examination was performed by two new algorithmic handwriting analysis methods and independently by a professional forensic document examiner. To the best of our knowledge, no such large-scale pair-wise assessments of ancient documents by a forensic expert has previously been published. Comparison of forensic examination with algorithmic analysis is also unique. Our study demonstrates substantial agreement between the results of these independent methods of investigation. Remarkably, the forensic examination reveals a high probability of at least 12 writers within the analyzed corpus. This is a major increment over the previously published algorithmic estimations, which revealed 4-7 writers for the same assemblage. The high literacy rate detected within the small Arad stronghold, estimated (using broadly-accepted paleo-demographic coefficients) to have accommodated 20-30 soldiers, demonstrates widespread literacy in the late 7(th)century BCE Judahite military and administration apparatuses, with the ability to compose biblical texts during this period a possible by-product.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000571539500008
WOS关键词	WRITER ; OSTRACA
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/326417
作者单位	[Shaus, Arie; Faigenbaum-Golovin, Shira] Tel Aviv Univ, Dept Appl Math, Tel Aviv, Israel; [Shaus, Arie; Finkelstein, Israel] Tel Aviv Univ, Jacob M Alkow Dept Archaeol & Ancient Near Easter, Tel Aviv, Israel; [Shaus, Arie] Harvard Med Sch, Dept Genet, Boston, MA 02115 USA; [Gerber, Yana] Israel Police, Div Identificat & Forens Sci, Tel Aviv, Israel; [Sober, Barak] Duke Univ, Dept Math, Durham, NC 27706 USA; [Sober, Barak] Duke Univ, Rhodes Informat Initiat, Durham, NC 27708 USA; [Piasetzky, Eli] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Tel Aviv, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shaus, Arie,Gerber, Yana,Faigenbaum-Golovin, Shira,et al. Forensic document examination and algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judahite biblical period inscriptions reveal significant literacy level[J],2020,15(9).
APA	Shaus, Arie,Gerber, Yana,Faigenbaum-Golovin, Shira,Sober, Barak,Piasetzky, Eli,&Finkelstein, Israel.(2020).Forensic document examination and algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judahite biblical period inscriptions reveal significant literacy level.PLOS ONE,15(9).
MLA	Shaus, Arie,et al."Forensic document examination and algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judahite biblical period inscriptions reveal significant literacy level".PLOS ONE 15.9(2020).