"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." --Provided by publisher

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Reinhard Gregor Kratz; Bernd U Schipper; Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co KG

(Ed.), Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Bernd U. Schipper

Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Company KG

Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 1. Auflage, Tübingen, 2022

Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, Tübingen, 2022

Germany, Germany

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Cover
Title
Preface
Table of Contents
1 Society and Administration
Gulia Francesca Grassi — “Do We Know the Arameans?” (SAA 17,176). The Use of Ethnonyms in the Aramaic Documents from Egypt
Holger Gzella — The Scribal Habit of Achaemenid Administrators, its Educational Underpinnings, and its Reception in the Hebrew Bible
Alexander Schütze — The Legal Context of the Aramaic Legal Tradition on Elephantine Reconsidered
Sylvie Honigman — 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
2 Religion
Alexandra von Lieven — Spätägyptische Religion in und um Elephantine
Collin Cornell/Brent A. Strawn — Is Judean Religion at Elephantine a Pidgin? Reassessing Its Relationship to Its Antecedents and Congeners
Bob Becking — “That Evil Act”. A Thick Description of the Crisis around the Demolition of the Temple of Yahô at Elephantine
Bernd U. Schipper — The Judeans/Arameans of Elephantine and Their Religion – An Egyptological Perspective
3 Literature
James D. Moore — “Ahikariana” at Elephantine: New Readings of Berlin P. 13446 and Developments in Ahiqar Research
Joachim Friedrich Quack — Die demotischen Fragmente der Erzählung und der Sprüche des Achiqar
Reinhard G. Kratz — Aḥiqar and Bisitun. The Literature of the Judeans at Elephantine
Tawny L. Holm — Papyrus Amherst 63 and the Arameans of Egypt. A Landscape of Cultural Nostalgia
Karel van der Toorn — The Background of the Elephantine Jews in Light of Papyrus Amherst 63
List of Authors
Ancient Sources
Names

2022-11-14