@article{oai:twcu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00025522,
 author = {守屋, 彰夫},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {東京女子大学紀要論集},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Dan Gill's study mainly based upon a geological perspective has shed a new light on both the Siloam Inscription and the Siloam Tunnel. The completion of the Siloam Tunnel project in the city of David ensured a dependable water supply during peaceful times as well as protection from possible invasion by Sennacherib. The tunnel was dug through the limestone and dolomite bedrock beneath the city. It runs from the Gihon Spring to the Siloam Pool in extraordinary S-shaped curves. The success of the difficult underground waterworks was perpetuated in the Siloam Inscription incised on the tunnel wall close to the southernmost exit. This monument, discovered in 1880 and now housed in the Imperial Museum in Istanbul, is one of the longest archaic Hebrew texts from the monarchic period. Although Hezekiah's name is not mentioned in it at all, the contents of the inscription are unanimously thought to be deeply related to his waterworks referred to in the Bible (2 Kings 20: 20; 2 Chronicles 32: 3-4. Cf. Ecclesiasticus 48: 17). Based on Gill's geological investigation, some controversial problems of the Siloam Inscription are reviewed in this paper. For example, the word zdh on line 3, unknown in other texts, is assumed to denote a fissure or crack in the rock. From a linguistic viewpoint, the root of zdh could be either znd or zyd. Meanwhile Gill proposes that geological investigation should support the former. The development of fissures, in Gill's opinion, could have resulted from the dissolution and leach between the two formations, the Meleke and the Mizzi Ahmar, which consist of fossiliferous limestone and hard dolomite respectively. Two teams of workers described in the inscription must have followed the fissure from opposite directions, and eventually came together. If this is true, this explains why it was possible, in spite of the anomalous shape of the fissure and lack of technology, to get through the narrow passage using oil-burning lamps without ventilation; and to maintain the accurate underground orientatio, n without a magnetic compass. These difficulties encountered by the underground workmen were overcome by the presence of the natural karst fissure running from the Gihon Spring to the opposite side of the city. Thus, a vexed question was resolved by a scientific clue offered by Gill. Several other important terms such as nqbh, mws', and brkh are considered from biblical and archaeological points of view in this paper. In conclusion, the language of the Siloam Inscription is closely related to the biblical one. It is also affirmed that the Inscription links up with the fragmentary information concerning Hezekiah's tunnel construction mentioned in the Bible. In addition, the final section will examine "a new theory" proposed by Rogerson and Davies concerning the dates of both the Siloam Tunnel construction and the Siloam Inscription.},
 pages = {117--134},
 title = {シロアム碑文再考},
 volume = {50},
 year = {2000}
}