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Ketef Hinnom approximate

A burial site on the western slope of the Hinnom Valley, just southwest of Jerusalem's Old City walls. In 1979, in a tomb excavated by archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, a team found two tiny rolled silver scrolls inscribed with the priestly blessing (Numbers 6:24-26, already on these pages) and dated to roughly 600 BC — before the Babylonian exile, the oldest known fragment of biblical text in existence, centuries older than the Dead Sea Scrolls. Unrolling them without destroying the brittle silver took three years of conservation work; they were almost certainly worn as amulets rather than read as scripture, and now sit in the Israel Museum.

in the text Num 6:24
📍 Ketef Hinnom — modern-day the Hinnom Valley slope near St. Andrew's Church, Jerusalem
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one, the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
▶ No films on the shelf yet — archaeology and geography videos get added here as Mr. Librarian finds good ones.