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EBAL

(Heb. ʿêḇāl)

(PLACE)

A mountain just N of Shechem across the valley from Mt. Gerizim and rising 933 m. (3061 ft.) above sea level. Moses commanded the Israelites to build an altar on Mt. Ebal (the Samaritan Pentateuch reads “Mt. Gerizim”) when they had crossed the Jordan, and to make a sacrifice (Deut. 27:5). The fulfillment of those commands is described in Josh. 8. In 1982 an assemblage of stones on Mt. Ebal was excavated. It has been variously interpreted as Joshua’s altar, a subsequent Israelite altar, or a noncultic structure, possibly a watchtower.

Bibliography. A. Zertal et al., Archaeology and the Bible, 1: Early Israel, ed. H. Shanks and D. P. Cole (Washington, 1990), 76-107 [four articles].

Robert T. Anderson






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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