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Author: Porten
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-10-09
Total Pages: 651
ISBN-13: 9004669078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK175 documents, spanning more than 3,000 years, from the ancient mounds on the island of Elephantine are translated into English here for the first time. A massive collection of papyri and ostraca, written in many scripts and tongues - including hieratic, demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Coptic and Arabic.
Author: Bezalel Porten
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9789004101975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK175 documents, spanning more than 3,000 years, from the ancient mounds on the island of Elephantine are translated into English here for the first time. A massive collection of papyri and ostraca, written in many scripts and tongues - including hieratic, demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Coptic and Arabic. Each entry, arranged thematically, includes information on date, size, parties, objects, content and significance, as well as general comments and cross-references. An important source, previously scattered among various museums and institutions, brought together here for the first time.
Author: James D. Moore
Publisher: Studies on Elephantine
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9789004505575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The famous German excavations between 1906 and 1908 of Elephantine Island in Egypt produced some of the most important Aramaic sources for understanding the history of Judeans and Arameans living in 5th century BCE Egypt under Persian occupation. Unknown to the world, many papyri fragments from those excavations remained uncatalogued in the Berlin Museum. In New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin James D. Moore edits the remaining legible Aramaic fragments, which belong to letters, contracts, and administrative texts"--
Author: A. E. Cowley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2005-09-14
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1597523631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Aramaic papyri found on the island of Elephantine, Egypt (ancient Yeb, opposite Syene) come from the fifth century BC. They include letters, personal archives, public archives, the 'Words of Ahikar,' the Behistun inscription, accounts, and lists. Cowley provides here the Aramaic transcriptions and English translations for all the texts available to him. In this edition, an updated bibliography is provided.
Author: Yochanan Muffs
Publisher:
Published: 2003
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ISBN-13: 9789004128682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karel van der Toorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0300243510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity
Author: Reinhard Gregor Kratz
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783161609978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Persian period has long been considered a "dark era" in Israel's history. For this reason, research has mainly focused on how it is depicted in the Hebrew Bible. A spectacular discovery of archaeological relics and epigraphic sources was hence hardly noticed: the military colony located on the island of Elephantine in the Nile, on the border between Egypt and present-day Sudan. The basic approach of this volume, which documents a three-year Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft project, is to break with a research tradition focusing on the Judeans (Jews) mentioned in the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine and instead investigate the military colony in a broader historical context also documented by Demotic and Egyptian-hieratic evidence found at Elephantine. The studies presented focus on three main subject areas: society and administration, religion, and literature. They show that historically the island of Elephantine hosted a multicultural society with several interactions between the Egyptians and the other inhabitants, and that it was also an important administrative centre for the Persian authorities.
Author: Andrew Gross
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-10-31
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9047442229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since the Elephantine papyri were first published over a century ago, scholars have speculated on the origins of the well-developed legal formularies used in these documents. Since then, many more Aramaic deeds of conveyance both from Elephantine and from elsewhere have been published, especially within the last decade or so. With this expanded text base now available, the time is ripe for a comprehensive re-assessment of these legal formularies. This book endeavors to show that these disparate Aramaic documents, whose chronological scope spans several centuries, form a discrete and coherent tradition. It isolates and identifies the distinctive elements that form the core of this tradition and traces the histories of these elements back through the cuneiform record.
Author: Gard Granerød
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-07-25
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 3110453177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat was Judaean religion in the Persian period like? Is it necessary to use the Bible to give an answer to the question? Among other things the study argues that • the religion practiced in the 5th c. BCE Elephantine community and which is reflected in the so-called Elephantine documents represent a well-attested manifestation of lived Persian period Yahwism, • as religio-historical sources, the Elephantine documents reveal more about the actual religious practice of the Elephantine Judaeans than what the highly edited and canonised texts of the Bible reveal about the religious practice of the contemporary Yahwistic coreligionists in Judah, and • the image of the Elephantine Judaism emerging from the Elephantine documents can revise the canonised image of Judaean religion in the Persian period (cf. A. Assmann). The Elephantine Yahwism should not be interpreted within a framework dependent upon theological, conceptual and spatial concepts alien to it, such as biblical ones. The study proposes an alternative framework by approaching the Elephantine documents on the basis of N. Smart’s multidimensional model of religion. Elephantine should not be exotified but brought to the very centre of any discussion of the history of Judaism.
Author: A.H. Gardiner
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 587102579X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe admonitions of an Egyptian sage from a hieratic papyrus in LeidenPap (Pap. Leiden 344 recto)
