ACOR Lecture: “An Invocation to Jesus in a Safaitic Inscription?“

Introduction by ACOR director Pearce Paul Creasman: 0:00​—2:22​ Feature presentation by Prof. Ahmad Al-Jallad: 2:22:-33:28​. Discussion/Q&A: 33:28-48:13​. Subscribe to our channel for the latest ACOR lectures: “An Invocation to Jesus in a Safaitic Inscription?” An ACOR online lecture by Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad (Ohio State University) on February 16, 2021. About the lecture: The Safaitic inscriptions constitute the largest epigraphic corpus in Jordan. The term refers to the northernmost branch of the South Semitic alphabet, a sister of the Ancient South Arabian script (musnad). The inscriptions, concentrated in the Syro-Jordanian Basalt Desert (the Ḥarrah), record the lifeways of the region’s inhabitants some 2,000 years ago. While the exact chronological limits of Safaitic are not known, scholars have assumed that the documentation ends around the 4th century CE, as there are no mentions of Christianity. This lecture will present a new inscription, dis