Scholars’ Corner: Yadin Presents New Interpretation of the Famous Lachish Letters, Oded Borowski, Biblical Archaeology Review (10:2), Mar/Apr 1984
The Lachish ostraca, or “The Lachish Letters” as they were called by Professor N. H. (Harry) Torczyner (Tur-Sinai), who was the first to decipher and interpret them, made an immediate splash in the scholarly world. Less than one month after their discovery, Sir Charles Marston, writing from Jerusalem to the Palestine Exploration Quarterly, proclaimed- “it is premature to suggest the precise effect that this find will have on old [sic!] Testament scholarship … But it already seems quite evident that further important evidence has been found that will tend to confirm the Old Testament…”
The letters clearly constituted some kind of correspondence and name lists.
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