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Elephantine in context : studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt
- Title
- Elephantine in context : studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt / edited by Reinhard G. Kratz, Bernd U. Schipper.
- Publication
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- xii, 385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."
- Series Statement
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 0940-4155 ; 155
- Uniform Title
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 155.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- 11 English, 2 German contributions.
- 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 Sch ze -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-2854
- ISBN
- 9783161609961
- 3161609964
- LCCN
- 9783161609961
- OCLC
- 1300425649
- Title
- Elephantine in context : studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt / edited by Reinhard G. Kratz, Bernd U. Schipper.
- Publisher
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 0940-4155 ; 155Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 155.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- 11 English, 2 German contributions.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Added Author
- Kratz, Reinhard Gregor, 1957- EditorSchipper, Bernd U., 1968- Editor
- Other Form:
- E-book version 9783161609978
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783161609961
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-2854