Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction

• Chapter I: Definition and review of the sources

• Chapter II: The king, his senior ministers and their functions
  • Introduction
  • The King
  • the recorder (hmzkyr)
  • The priest
  • The scribe
  • The “king’s son”
  • Over the corvee (forced labour)
  • The king’s friend
  • The majordomo (‘sr ‘l hbyt)
  • The soken
  • Commander in chief (‘l hsb’)

Chapter III: Other dignitaries and the “king’s servants”

• sar ha’ir – the governor of the city
• sar ha’ofim – the head of the baker
• Local district officers (governors)
• Royal guard (msm’t)
• The king’s servants (bdy hmlk)

• Chapter IV: The na’ar (servant, attendant, youth) and his position according to epigraphic sources

• Chapter V: Other officials, ranks, and others—the sofet and the soter
• The sofet (Judge)
• The soter
• The eunech (saris)
• s’r hmsgr – the gatekeeper of the prison
• nhl – The manager (“guide”)
• hnss – The standard bearer
• happaqid, The official (lit. nominated)

• Chapter VI: Questions of administrative organization arising from several epigraphic funds
  • Excurses
  • Persons in the royal administration in Judah and their connection with the finding of the “Book of the Law” (Deuteronomy)
  • New epigraphic evidence about the fall of Judah in 586 BC
  • Careers of persons in royal service from epigraphic evidence
  • the status of Nob, of the priestly city, in the light of epigraphic data
  • Mentioning of the rb khn (“chief priest”) in the book of Hosea
  • The – keeper-boy
  • he rb ‘lf – headman of the thousand

• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• List of Illustrations
• Illustrations