In the shadow of Bezalel : Aramaic, biblical, and ancient Near Eastern studies in honor of Bezalel Porten /
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Twenty nine scholars from Israel, Europe and the Americas came together to honor and celebrate Prof. Bezalel Porten's (Emeritus, Dept. of History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) academic career. Covering a wide variety of topics within Aramaic, Biblical, and ancient Near Eastern Studies, In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.
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1 online resource (l, 429 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004240841 :
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Continuity and innovation in the Aramaic legal tradition /
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Ever 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.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-226) and index. :
9789047442226 :
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Studies in the Aramaic legal papyri from Elephantine /
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Long recognized as a brilliant cross-cultural study, Yochanan Muffs' work analyzes the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine, at the first cataract of the Nile, where a Persian garrison comprised of Jewish soldiers and their families lived throughout most of the 5th century B.C.E. These documents are of exceptional importance for the study of ancient Near Eastern law, and Muffs has investigated their formative background through extensive references to cuneiform law, by a method he calls "the Assyriological approach". Virtually every aspect of law-sale of land, marriage and family law, loans and credit, the taking of oaths, and the granting of bequests is studied in great depth and with unusual clarity. Muffs' work has enjoyed renewed interest in the light of more recent discoveries of Aramaic legal documents from later periods, as in the Judean Desert.
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1 online resource (xliv, 311 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004294233 :
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Elephantine in context : studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt /
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"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 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."
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xii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783161609961
3161609964 :
0940-4155 ;
Von Elephantine bis zu den Küsten des Meeres : Die Kulttopographie Ägyptens nach den Gauprozessionen der Spätzeit und der frühptolemäischen Epoche /
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Von Elephantine bis zu den Küsten des Meeres' vereint drei Studien zu kulttopographischen Inschriften aus der Spätzeit und dem Beginn der ptolemäischen Epoche. Zahlreiche Quellen waren hier bislang nicht oder nur teilweise publiziert. 0St. Blaschta bearbeitet die kürzlich in Heliopolis/Matariya aufgefundenen Basaltblöcke einer ?Gauprozession? aus der Zeit Nektanebos? I. Die dort eingemeißelten Inschriften scheinen einem Textkorpus entnommen, das seit der Spätzeit bis zum Ende der Ptolemäerzeit an vielen Standorten nachzuweisen ist. Fr. Ghiringhelli untersucht alle Vertreter dieses ?Standardtextes? und zeichnet dessen Entwicklung nach, die anhand einer Synopse nachvollziehbar wird. Spätestens zu Beginn der Ptolemäerzeit wurden Texte verwendet, die sich vom Formular sowie Aussagegehalt stark von den früheren Inschriften unterscheiden. Diese sind erstmals in den Blöcken des Amun-Tempels von Naukratis greifbar, der unter Ptolemaios? I dekoriert wurde. D. von Recklinghausen bietet eine vollständige Textedition und beschäftigt sich u.a. mit Fragen der Texttradierung und der Verwendung von Musterbüchern, da die Texte in Naukratis auch gut zweihundert Jahre später in den Tempeln Oberägyptens zur Dekoration verwendet wurden. Der Band wird durch umfangreiche Indizes erschlossen.
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x, 392 pages : illustrations, one folded plates ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783447111140
3447111143