Textbook of Aramaic ostraca from Idumea / [compiled, edited, and translated into English by] Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni ; with the assistance of Matt Kletzing and Eugen Han.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porten, Bezalel, editor, translator.

Yardeni, Ada, editor, translator.

Kletzing, Matt

Han, Eugen

Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

Language:

Aramaic

English

Subjects (All):

Ostraka--Edom (Kingdom).

Ostraka.

Aramaic language--Texts.

Aramaic language.

Middle East--Edom (Kingdom).

Genre:

Texts.

Physical Description:

volumes, <1-4> : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2014-<2020>.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way into museums, libraries, and private collections. Four major publications covering some of these texts have appeared, there of which encompass the ostraca held by individual collectors only. This multivolume work classifies the ostraca acording to subject matter and brings them together in a single publication -- Publisher.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "a catalogue of all the texts and three color key-word-in-context concordances, for words, personal names, and months for the entire corpus."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

vol. 1. Dossiers 1-10: 421 commodity chits

vol. 2. Dossiers 11-50: 263 commodity chits

vol. 3. Dossiers 51-300.6: 488 commodity chits

vol. 4. Dossiers B-G: 375 Ostraca

Notes:

Volume 1 accompanied by a CD-ROM.

Volumes 3-4 place of publication: University Park, Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781575062778

1575062771

9781575069845

1575069849

9781575067346

157506734X

OCLC:

864279021

Publisher Number:

40024073241