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“Not only is this papyrus the earliest non-Biblical source that mentions Jerusalem in Hebrew writing, no other written documents on papyrus from the First Temple period were found in the Land of Israel until now, except one from the Wadi Marbaat…The document also highlights the unusual status of a woman in the administration of the kingdom of Judah in the seventh century BCE.” (Prof. Shmuel Ahituv, the Israel Prize laureate for Bible studies on recent papyrus discovery, 26/10/16)