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Becoming diaspora Jews : behind the story of Elephantine
- Title
- Becoming diaspora Jews : behind the story of Elephantine / Karel van der Toorn.
- Author
- Toorn, K. van der
- Publication
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-10756 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 270 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. The colony that lived at Elephantine Island in the fifth century BCE is an icon of the Jewish diaspora, but there is something unusual about it. These people had abandoned Hebrew for Aramaic and venerated several Aramean gods beside the ancestral Jewish god. Karel van der Toorn studies an unexplored papyrus to shed new light on their history.
- Series Statement
- Anchor Yale Bible reference library
- Uniform Title
- Papyrus Amherst. 63. English.
- Anchor Yale Bible reference library.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-253) and indexes.
- Contents
- Elephantine revisited -- The Aramean heritage -- The Aramean diaspora in Egypt -- The origins of the Elephantine Jews -- A military colony and its religion -- Becoming diaspora Jews -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Translation of Papyrus Amherst 63, adapted from AOAT 448.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10756
- ISBN
- 9780300243512
- 0300243510
- LCCN
- 2019930737
- OCLC
- 1089574817
- Author
- Toorn, K. van der, author.
- Title
- Becoming diaspora Jews : behind the story of Elephantine / Karel van der Toorn.
- Publisher
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Anchor Yale Bible reference libraryAnchor Yale Bible reference library.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-253) and indexes.
- Added Title
- Papyrus Amherst. 63. English.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10756