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Elephantine in Context

Author : Reinhard Gregor Kratz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161609961
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Elephantine in Context written by Reinhard Gregor Kratz and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Elephantine in Context

Author : Reinhard Gregor Kratz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161609978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Elephantine in Context written by Reinhard Gregor Kratz and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Elephantine Revisited

Author : Margaretha Folmer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646022084
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Elephantine Revisited written by Margaretha Folmer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Identity in Persian Egypt

Author : Bob Becking
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 164602074X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Identity in Persian Egypt written by Bob Becking and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Elephantine Papyri in English

Author : Bezalel Porten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004101975
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Elephantine Papyri in English written by Bezalel Porten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin

Author : James D. Moore
Publisher : Studies on Elephantine
ISBN 13 : 9789004505575
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin written by James D. Moore and published by Studies on Elephantine. This book was released on 2022 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The famous German excavations between 1906 and 1908 of Elephantine Island in Egypt produced some of the most important Aramaic sources for understanding the history of Judeans and Arameans living in 5th century BCE Egypt under Persian occupation. Unknown to the world, many papyri fragments from those excavations remained uncatalogued in the Berlin Museum. In New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin James D. Moore edits the remaining legible Aramaic fragments, which belong to letters, contracts, and administrative texts"--

Semitic Papyrology in Context

Author : Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004128859
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Semitic Papyrology in Context written by Lawrence H. Schiffman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together studies which relate to the interpenetration of Semitic and Greco-Roman traditions of papyrus writing in the antique Middle East.

Elephantine

Author : David A. Aston
Publisher : Philipp Von Zabern
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephantine written by David A. Aston and published by Philipp Von Zabern. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years Egyptian scholars, especially pottery specialists, have awaited a stratified ceramic sequence spanning the first millennium BC. The excavations at Elephantine, in the Northwest area of the Ptolemaic Khnum Temple, have revealed such as sequence, from the Ptolemaic period to the Late New Kingdom. With plans and illustrations of ceramics.

Herodotean Soundings

Author : Andreas Schwab
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823393294
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Herodotean Soundings written by Andreas Schwab and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus' Histories, one of the few sources on the Persian conquest of Egypt that has not yet been exhaustively explored in its complexity. The contributions of this volume deal with the motivations and narrative strategies behind Herodotus' characterization of the Persian king but also with the geopolitical background of Cambyses' conquest of Egypt as well as the reception of the Cambyses logos by later ancient authors. "Herodotean Soundings: The Cambyses Logos" exemplifies how a multidisciplinary approach can contribute significantly to a better understanding of a complex work such as Herodotus' Histories.

What Makes a People?

Author : Dionisio Candido
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111337804
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book What Makes a People? written by Dionisio Candido and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of varied and stimulating papers, by an international group of younger as well as senior scholars, examines the manner in which peoplehood was understood by the Jewish communities of the Second Temple period and by the religious traditions that emerged from those communities and later flourished in Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. The Hebrew and Greek terms for "people" and "nation" and the name "Israel" are closely analyzed, especially in forays into wisdom literature, Jewish apologetic and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and their uses are related to geographical, political and theological developments, as well as statehood, authority and rulership in the Persian world, Hasmonean times and Ptolemaic Egypt. Especially interesting are the carefully argued and documented suggestions about how Jewish peoplehood expressed itself with regard to charitable behavior, pagan deities, and marital regulations. Those interested in the history of cultural and theological tensions will be intrigued by the studies centered on how the opponents of Jews behaved towards "the people of God", how Hellenistic Jewish culture located the Jews on the Roman rather than on the Greek side, and how early Christian discourse saw the mission among the peoples and interpreted earlier sources accordingly. The idea of the Jewish "way of life" is seen to have influenced the writer of the longer Greek version of Esther and works of fiction are shown to have had important historical data within them. Modern social theory also has its say here in a careful consideration of Cognitive theory of ethnicity and the dynamic of ethnic boundary-making.

The Quest for Context and Meaning

Author : Craig Alan Evans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004108356
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Context and Meaning written by Craig Alan Evans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies is in honor of Professor James A. Sanders, a leading scholar in the fields of canon of Scripture, textual criticism, and intertextuality. Contributors include leading scholars in these and related fields of study.

From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond

Author : David M. Carr
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161632230
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond written by David M. Carr and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context

Author : Christopher J. Tuplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192652575
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context written by Christopher J. Tuplin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War the Bodleian Library in Oxford acquired a set of Aramaic letters, eight sealings, and the two leather bags in which the sealed letters were once stored. The letters concern the affairs of Aršāma, satrap of Egypt in the later fifth century. Taken with other material associated with him (mostly in Aramaic, Demotic Egyptian, and Akkadian), they illuminate the Achaemenid world of which Aršāama was a privileged member and evoke a wide range of social, economic, cultural, organizational, and political perspectives, from multi-lingual communication, storage and disbursement of resources, and satrapal remuneration, to cross-regional ethnic movement, long-distance travel, religious practice, and iconographic projection of ideological messages. Particular highlights include a travel authorization (the only example of something implicit in numerous Persepolis documents), texts about the religious life of the Judaean garrison at Elephantine, Aršāma's magnificent seal (a masterpiece of Achaemenid glyptic, inherited from a son of Darius I), and echoes of temporary disturbances to Persian management of Egypt. But what is also impressive is the underlying sense of systematic coherence founded on and expressed in the use of formal, even formalized, written communication as a means of control. The Aršāma dossier is not alone in evoking that sense, but its size, variety, and focus upon a single individual give it a unique quality. Though this material has not been hidden from view, it has been insufficiently explored: it is the purpose of the three volumes of Aršāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context to provide the fullest presentation and historical contextualization of this extraordinary cache yet attempted. Volume I presents and translates the letters alongside a detailed line-by-line commentary, while Volume II reconstructs the two seals that made the clay bullae that sealed the letters, with special attention to Aršāma's magnificent heirloom seal. Volume III comprises a series of thematic essays which further explore the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic environment to which Aršāma and the letters belonged.

Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt

Author : Deborah Vischak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316123405
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt written by Deborah Vischak and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a group of twelve ancient Egyptian tombs (c.2300 BCE) in the elite Old Kingdom cemetery of Elephantine at Qubbet el-Hawa in modern Aswan. It develops an interdisciplinary approach to the material - drawing on methods from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, including agency theory, the role of style, the reflexive relationship between people and landscape, and the nature of locality and community identity. A careful examination of the architecture, setting, and unique text and image programs of these tombs in context provides a foundation for considering how ancient Egyptian provincial communities bonded to each other, developed shared identities within the broader Egyptian world, and expressed these identities through their personal forms of visual and material culture.

Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire

Author : Gad Barnea, Reinhard G. Kratz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111019136
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire written by Gad Barnea, Reinhard G. Kratz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal

Author : T. M. Lemos
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884145085
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal written by T. M. Lemos and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume come together to honor the lifetime of work of Saul M. Olyan, Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. Essays by his students, colleagues, and friends focus on and engage with his work on relationships in the Hebrew Bible, from the marking of status in relationships of inequality, to human family, friend, and sexual relationships, to relationships between divine beings. Contributors include Susan Ackerman, Klaus-Peter Adam, Rainer Albertz, Andrea Allgood, Debra Scoggins Ballentine, Bob Becking, John J. Collins, Stephen L. Cook, Ronald Hendel, T. M. Lemos, Nathaniel B. Levtow, Carol Meyers, Susan Niditch, Brian Rainey, Thomas Römer, Jordan D. Rosenblum, Rüdiger Schmitt, Jennifer Elizabeth Singletary, Kerry M. Sonia, Karen B. Stern, Stanley Stowers, Andrew Tobolowsky, Karel van der Toorn, Emma Wasserman, and Steven Weitzman.

Arsāma and His World: the Bodleian Letters in Context

Author : Christopher J. Tuplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198860706
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Arsāma and His World: the Bodleian Letters in Context written by Christopher J. Tuplin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War the Bodleian Library in Oxford acquired a set of Aramaic letters, eight sealings, and the two leather bags in which the sealed letters were once stored. The letters concern the affairs of Arsāma, satrap of Egypt in the later fifth century. Taken with other material associated with him (mostly in Aramaic, Demotic Egyptian, and Akkadian), they illuminate the Achaemenid world of which Arsāama was a privileged member and evoke a wide range of social, economic, cultural, organizational, and political perspectives, from multi-lingual communication, storage and disbursement of resources, and satrapal remuneration, to cross-regional ethnic movement, long-distance travel, religious practice, and iconographic projection of ideological messages. Particular highlights include a travel authorization (the only example of something implicit in numerous Persepolis documents), texts about the religious life of the Judaean garrison at Elephantine, Arsāma's magnificent seal (a masterpiece of Achaemenid glyptic, inherited from a son of Darius I), and echoes of temporary disturbances to Persian management of Egypt. But what is also impressive is the underlying sense of systematic coherence founded on and expressed in the use of formal, even formalized, written communication as a means of control. The Arsāma dossier is not alone in evoking that sense, but its size, variety, and focus upon a single individual give it a unique quality. Though this material has not been hidden from view, it has been insufficiently explored: it is the purpose of the three volumes of Arsāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context to provide the fullest presentation and historical contextualization of this extraordinary cache yet attempted. Volume I presents and translates the letters alongside a detailed line-by-line commentary, while Volume II reconstructs the two seals that made the clay bullae that sealed the letters, with special attention to Arsāma's magnificent heirloom seal. Volume III comprises a series of thematic essays which further explore the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic environment to which Arsāma and the letters belonged.