Elephantine Revisited : New Insights into the Judean Community and Its Neighbors / Margaretha Folmer, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Folmer, Margaretha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Egypt--Elephantine--History--To 1500.

Jews.

Aramaic language--Egypt--Elephantine.

Aramaic language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 On the Archaeological Background of the Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in the Light of Recent Fieldwork

Chapter 2 Family Life and Law at Elephantine

Chapter 3 Some Aspects of Family Bonds in the Judean Community of Elephantine

Chapter 4 Law in Elephantine: Crimes and Misdemeanors

Chapter 5 The Ostraca of Elephantine: A Further Light on the Judeans in Elephantine

Chapter 6 Elephantine and Ezra–Nehemiah

Chapter 7 Aḥiqar and Bisitun: The Literature of the Judeans at Elephantine

Chapter 8 On Aḥiqar and the Bible

Chapter 9 The Identity of the People at Elephantine

Chapter 10 The Contribution of Elephantine Aramaic to Aramaic Studies

Chapter 11 Personal Names in New Aramaic Ostraca from Syene

Contributors

Ancient Sources Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646022076

1646022076

9781646022083

1646022084

OCLC:

1306058710