(Ex. 24:12; 31:18; 32:15-16; 34:1,28; Deut. 4:13; 5:22; 27:2-3; Josh. 8:31-32; Job 19:24) The earliest Israelite document which has survived in Aramaic writing is the Gezer Calendar of about 900 B.C. or a few decades earlier. It is a small limestone tablet inscribed with the irregular hand of a schoolboy and containing a list of the successive phases of the agricultural year from season to season.
Moses is known for the use of stone tablets, but he was not alone. Most nations left records carved into stone.