The Jewish Colony at Elephantine, the Elephantine Papyri
Author | : George Kroeze |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : George Kroeze |
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Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : George Kroeze |
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Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Elephantine (Egypt) |
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Author | : Bezalel Porten |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004101975 |
175 documents, spanning more than 3,000 years, from the ancient mounds on the island of Elephantine are translated into English here for the first time. A massive collection of papyri and ostraca, written in many scripts and tongues - including hieratic, demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Coptic and Arabic. Each entry, arranged thematically, includes information on date, size, parties, objects, content and significance, as well as general comments and cross-references. An important source, previously scattered among various museums and institutions, brought together here for the first time.
Author | : George Kroeze |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : George Kroeze |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 1941 |
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Author | : Karel van der Toorn |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Arameans |
ISBN | : 0300243510 |
Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity
Author | : Margaretha Folmer |
Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2022-05-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781646021635 |
The Judean community at Elephantine has long fascinated historians of the Persian period. This book, with its stellar assemblage of important scholarly voices, provides substantive new insights and approaches that will advance the study of this well-known but not entirely understood community from fifth-century BCE Egypt. Elephantine Revisited is one of the few books dedicated wholly to the study of this unique community since Bezalel Porten's pioneering Archives from Elephantine, published in 1968. Since then, the discourse on the subject has changed considerably, due to new data from excavations, the discovery and publication of previously unknown texts, and original scholarly insights and avenues of inquiry. Running the gamut from archaeological to linguistic investigations and encompassing legal, literary, religious, and other aspects of life in this Judean community, this volume stands at a crossroads of research that extends from Hebrew Bible studies to the history of early Jewish communities. It also features fourteen new Aramaic ostraca from Aswan. The volume will appeal to students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism, as well as to a wider audience of Egyptologists, Semitists, and specialists in ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Annalisa Azzoni, Bob Becking, Alejandro F. Botta, Lester L. Grabbe, Ingo Kottsieper, Reinhard G. Kratz, André Lemaire, Hélène Nutkowicz, Beatrice von Pilgrim, Cornelius von Pilgrim, Bezalel Porten, Karel van der Toorn, Ada Yardeni, and Ran Zadok. Moreover, a video recording of an interview conducted with Porten on his long career in Elephantine studies accompanies the book through a link on the Eisenbrauns website.
Author | : Bob Becking |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 164602074X |
In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the origins, lives, and eventual fate of the Yehudites, or Judeans, at Elephantine, framed within the greater history of the rise and fall of the Persian Empire. The Yehudites were among those mercenaries recruited by the Persians to defend the southwestern border of the empire in the fifth century BCE. Becking argues that this group, whom some label as the first “Jews,” lived on the island of Elephantine in relative peace with other ethnic groups under the aegis of the pax persica. Drawing on Aramaic and Demotic texts discovered during excavations on the island and at Syene on the adjacent shore of the Nile, Becking finds evidence of intermarriage, trade cooperation, and even a limited acceptance of one another’s gods between the various ethnic groups at Elephantine. His analysis of the Elephantine Yehudites’ unorthodox form of Yahwism provides valuable insight into the group’s religious beliefs and practices. An important contribution to the study of Yehudite life in the diaspora, this accessibly written and sweeping history enhances our understanding of the varieties of early Jewish life and how these contributed to the construction of Judaism.
Author | : Margaretha Folmer |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-03-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1646022084 |
The Judean community at Elephantine has long fascinated historians of the Persian period. This book, with its stellar assemblage of important scholarly voices, provides substantive new insights and approaches that will advance the study of this well-known but not entirely understood community from fifth-century BCE Egypt. Since Bezalel Porten’s pioneering Archives from Elephantine, published in 1968, the discourse on the subject of the community of Elephantine during the Persian period has changed considerably, due to new data from excavations, the discovery and publication of previously unknown texts, and original scholarly insights and avenues of inquiry. Running the gamut from archaeological to linguistic investigations and encompassing legal, literary, religious, and other aspects of life in this Judean community, this volume stands at a crossroads of research that extends from Hebrew Bible studies to the history of early Jewish communities. It also features fourteen new Aramaic ostraca from Aswan. The volume will appeal to students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism, as well as to a wider audience of Egyptologists, Semitists, and specialists in ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Annalisa Azzoni, Bob Becking, Alejandro F. Botta, Lester L. Grabbe, Ingo Kottsieper, Reinhard G. Kratz, André Lemaire, Hélène Nutkowicz, Beatrice von Pilgrim, Cornelius von Pilgrim, Bezalel Porten, Ada Yardeni, and Ran Zadok. Moreover, a video recording of an interview conducted with Porten on his long career in Elephantine studies accompanies the book through a link on the Eisenbrauns website.
Author | : Edward Bleiberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
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