A seminar on ancient Hebrew inscriptions, as well as the closely related Moabite, Edomite, Ammonite, and Phoenician texts. Knowledge of biblical Hebrew is supposed. A basic bibliography is supplied, and a grasp of the scholarly literature is required. The texts are prepared in advance and presented by the students, with emphasis on grammatical, syntactic, literary, historical, and religious questions, and with consideration of orthographic and paleographical issues.