Elephantine in context : studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt /

Elephantine in context : studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt /

"The 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 co...

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Other Authors: Kratz, Reinhard Gregor, 1957- (Editor), Bernd U. Schipper, Schipper, Bernd U., 1968- (Editor)

Format: Book

Language: English
German

Published: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2022].

Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 155.

Subjects:

Achaemenid dynasty, > 559-330 B.C. > History.
Jews > Egypt > Elephantine > History > To 1500.
Elephantine (Egypt) > Religion.

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Call Number: DS121.5 .E43 2022

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Society and Administration
  • Do we know the Arameans? (SAA 17,176) : the use of ethnonyms in the Aramaic documents from Egypt /
  • Gulia Francesca Grassi
  • The scribal habit of Achaemenid administrators : its educational underpinnings, and its reception in the Hebrew Bible /
  • Holger Gzella
  • The legal context of the Aramaic legal tradition on Elephantine reconsidered /
  • Alexander Schutze
  • Serving the kings, building temples, and paying the "Jewish tax" : Aramaic-speaking Judeans and their descendants in Upper Egypt from Persian to early Imperial times /
  • Sylvie Honigman
  • 2. Religion
  • Spätägyptische Religion in und um Elephantine /
  • Alexandra von Lieven
  • Is Judean religion at Elephantine a pidgin? : reassessing its relationship to Its antecedents and congeners /
  • Collin Cornell,
  • Brent A. Strawn
  • That evil act : a thick description of the crisis around the demolition of the Temple of Yahô at Elephantine /
  • Bob Becking
  • The Judeans/Arameans of Elephantine and their religion : an Egyptological perspective /
  • Bernd U. Schipper
  • 3. Literature
  • Ahikariana at Elephantine : new readings of Berlin P. 13446 and developments in Ahiqar research /
  • James D. Moore
  • Die demotischen Fragmente der Erzählung und der Sprüche des Achiqar /
  • Joachim Friedrich Quack
  • Aḥiqar and Bisitun : the literature of the Judeans at Elephantine /
  • Reinhard G. Kratz
  • Papyrus Amherst 63 and the Arameans of Egypt : a landscape of cultural nostalgia /
  • Tawny L. Holm
  • The background of the Elephantine Jews in light of Papyrus Amherst 63 /
  • Karel van der Toorn.