The Demotic Graffiti from the Temple of Isis on Philae Island
The Demotic Graffiti from the Temple of Isis on Philae Island

Author: Eugene Cruz-Uribe

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1937040488

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This volume publishes 534 new Demotic graffiti recorded at the temple of Isis on Philae Island, presented with drawings and photographs. New editions of 101 of the graffiti that were published by F. Griffith in his Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri in the Dodecaschoenus (1937) are published here. These reedited texts were mainly chosen because new drawings provided significant new readings from those made by Griffith, or they helped elucidate the scope and meaning of some of the new graffiti by placement. The volume also includes an essay interpreting the role of the graffiti in understanding the political and religious activities at Philae temple during the last centuries of worship of the goddess Isis, mainly by Nubian priests and pilgrims.

Hellenism in the Land of Israel
Hellenism in the Land of Israel

Author: John Joseph Collins

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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This book is a collection of essays that explore the variety of ways in which Jews in Israel responded to and appropriated Greek culture. In various ways the contributors provide corroborating evidence of the influence of Greek culture in Judea and Galilee, from before the Maccabean revolt on into the rabbinic period. At the same time, they probe the limits of that influence, the persistence of Semitic languages and thought patterns, and especially the exclusiveness of Jewish religion.