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Aramaic papyri of the fifth century B.C.

Title: Aramaic papyri of the fifth century B.C., edited, with translation and notes, by A. Cowley.
Author: Cowley, A. E. (Arthur Ernest), 1861-1931
Publication: Oxford, The Clarendon press, 1923.

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Description

xxxii, 319 p., [1] p. diagr.; 24 cm.

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Note

Translations of 36 of the most important Aramaic texts contained in the present volume were published under the title: Jewish documents of the time of Ezra (London, 1919)
"The words of Aḥiḳar": p. 212-248.
"The Behistun inscription [fragments of an Aramaic version]": p. 248-271.
"List of books and articles": p. [viii]-x.
"These particular documents ... are ... the earliest Jewish texts we possess, with the exception of the Siloam inscription and the ostraka from Samaria, and (with those exceptions) the only Jewish literature of so early a date, outside the Old Testament."--Introd.

Call Number

*ZP-595 (Cowley, A. E. Aramaic papyri of the fifth century B.C.)

LCCN

24018105

OCLC

1374957

Author

Cowley, A. E. (Arthur Ernest), 1861-1931, ed.

Title

Aramaic papyri of the fifth century B.C., edited, with translation and notes, by A. Cowley.

Imprint

Oxford, The Clarendon press, 1923.

Added Author

Ahikar.

Darius I, King of Persia, 548-485 B.C.

Research Call Number

*ZP-595 (Cowley, A. E. Aramaic papyri of the fifth century B.C.) [Microfilm]