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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.

Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt

Author : Henry P. Colburn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474452388
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt by : Henry P. Colburn

Download or read book Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt written by Henry P. Colburn and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the material culture of Egypt during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule, c. 526-404 BCEProvides a clear overview of the archaeological evidence for Achaemenid Egypt, including temples, tombs, irrigation works, statues, stelae, seals and coinsDemonstrates how different types of evidence, both textual and archaeological - including material of uncertain provenance - can be used to address a single historical questionOffers critical discussion of the dating criteria used by archaeologists for Egyptian Late Period materialElucidates strategies used by the Persians to establish and maintain control of EgyptExamines how these strategies may have affected the lives of people living in Egypt during the 27th DynastyCreates a new explanatory model for the introduction of coinage to ancient EgyptPrevious studies have characterised Achaemenid rule of Egypt either as ephemeral and weak or oppressive and harsh. These characterisations, however, are based on the perceived lack of evidence for this period, filtered through ancient and modern preconceptions about the Persians.Henry Colburn challenges these views by assembling and analyzing the archaeological remains from this period, including temples, tombs, irrigation works, statues, stelae, sealings, drinking vessels and coins. By looking at the decisions made about material culture - by Egyptians, Persians and others - it becomes possible to see both how the Persians integrated Egypt into their empire and the full range of experiences people had as a result.

The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt

Author : Annalisa Azzoni
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068583
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt written by Annalisa Azzoni and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elephantine texts have been variously studied, mainly with respect to their impact on Jewish history. But these texts have more to offer, particularly in relation to the history of women. Annalisa Azzoni, in The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt, delves deeply into these texts, examining these Egyptian Aramaic documents in order to make public the lives of women, including their social status, their economic activities, and their private lives. Azzoni recovers the lives of everyday women, allowing them to take their place in the larger context of women in the ancient Near East. Challenging any oversimplification about the lives of ancient women, Azzoni painstakingly examines legal documents, administrative texts, and letters. The archives provide a wealth of data in terms of legal and economic status as well as position in the community. Three women receive particular attention in this study: the wealthy Judean Mipṭaḥiah, the Egyptian slave Tamut, and Yehoyismaʿ, Tamut’s manumitted daughter.

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.

The Iranian Expanse

Author : Matthew P. Canepa
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520379209
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Iranian Expanse written by Matthew P. Canepa and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies. Investigating over a thousand years of history, from the Achaemenid period to the arrival of Islam, The Iranian Expanse argues that Iranian identities were built and shaped not by royal discourse alone, but by strategic changes to Western Asia’s cities, sanctuaries, palaces, and landscapes. The Iranian Expanse critically examines the construction of a new Iranian royal identity and empire, which subsumed and subordinated all previous traditions, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Anatolia. It then delves into the startling innovations that emerged after Alexander under the Seleucids, Arsacids, Kushans, Sasanians, and the Perso-Macedonian dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, a previously understudied and misunderstood period. Matthew P. Canepa elucidates the many ruptures and renovations that produced a new royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, Ottomans, and Mughals.

Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus

Author : Thomas Figueira
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351805584
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus written by Thomas Figueira and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness – and necessarily that of later civilizations influenced by the ancient Greeks – which was perpetually in dialogue and tension with other ways of living in groups. In this book, 14 contributors explore ethnicity – the very self-understanding of belonging to a separate body of human beings – and how it evolves and consolidates (or ethnogenesis). This inquiry is focussed through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography, in this instance not only as the stylized portrayal of other societies, but also as an exegesis on how ethnocultural differentiation may affect the lives, and even the very existence, of one’s own people. Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus is one facet of a project that intends to bring Portuguese and English-speaking scholars of antiquity into closer cooperation. It has united a cross-section of North American classicists with a distinguished cohort of Portuguese and Brazilian experts on Greek literature and history writing in English.

Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt

Author : Stewart Moore
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004303081
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt written by Stewart Moore and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt, Stewart Moore investigates the triangular ethnic relations of Jews, Egyptians and Greeks to describe their mutual effects, both positive and negative, on identity formation.

Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425616
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe was the most important intersection of human mobility in the medieval period. The present volume for the first time systematically covers migration histories of the regions between the Mediterranean and Central Asia and between Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean in the centuries from Late Antiquity up to the early modern era. Within this framework, specialists from Byzantine, Islamic, Medieval and African history provide detailed analyses of specific regions and groups of migrants, both elites and non-elites as well as voluntary and involuntary. Thereby, also current debates of migration studies are enriched with a new dimension of deep historical time. Contributors are: Alexander Beihammer, Lutz Berger, Florin Curta, Charalampos Gasparis, George Hatke, Dirk Hoerder, Johannes Koder, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Youval Rotman, Yannis Stouraitis, Panayiotis Theodoropoulos, and Myriam Wissa.

Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period

Author : Oded Lipschits
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066491
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period written by Oded Lipschits and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April, 2008, an international colloquium was held at the University of Heidelberg—the fourth convocation of a group of scholars (with some rotating members) who gathered to discuss the status of Judah and the Judeans in the exilic and postexilic periods. The goal of this gathering was specifically to address the question of national identity in the period when many now believe this very issue was in significant foment and development, the era of the Persian/Achaemenid domination of the ancient Near East. This volume contains most of the papers delivered at the Heidelberg conference, considering the matter under two rubrics: (1) the biblical evidence (and the diversity of data from the Bible); and (2) the cultural, historical, social, and environmental factors affecting the formation of national identity. Contributors: K. Schmid, J. Schaper, A. C. Hagedorn, C. Nihan, J. Middlemas, D. Rom-Shiloni, J. Wöhrle, Y. Dor, K. Southwood, D. N. Fulton, P.-A. Beaulieu, L. E. Pearce, D. Redford, A. Lemaire, J. F. Quack, B. Becking, R. G. Kratz, O. Tal, J. Blenkinsopp, R. Albertz, J. L. Wright, D. S. Vanderhooft, M. Oeming, and A. Kloner. Earlier volumes in the series of conferences are: Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period, Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period, and Judah and the Judeans in the in the Fourth Century B.C.E.

Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284346
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World presents new Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries C.E. from Egypt and Palestine and explores its rich potential for historical analysis.

Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Yasir Suleiman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787771
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa written by Yasir Suleiman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of identity in relation to language has hardly been dealt with in the Middle East and North Africa, in spite of the centrality of these issues to a variety of scholarly debates concerning this strategically important part of the world. The book seeks to cover a variety of themes in this area.

Ibn al-Balad

Author : El-Messiri
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004491503
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Ibn al-Balad written by El-Messiri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shahnameh

Author : Firdawsī
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670034857
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Shahnameh written by Firdawsī and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.

Never Had the Like Occurred

Author : John Tait
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315423480
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Never Had the Like Occurred written by John Tait and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never Had the Like Occurred" examines Ancient Egypt's own multifaceted encounters with its past. As Egyptian culture constantly changed and evolved, this book follows a chronological arrangement, from early Egypt to the attitudes of the Coptic population in the Byzantine Period. Within this framework, it asks what access the Egyptians had to information about the past, whether deliberately or accidentally acquired; what use was made of the past; what were the Egyptians attitudes to the past; what sense of past time did the Egyptians have; and what kinds of reverence for the past did they entertain? This is the first book dedicated to the whole range of these themes. It provides an explanatory context for the numerous previous studies that have dealt with particular sets of evidence, particular periods, or particular issues. It provides a case study of how civilizations may view and utilize their past.

Ibn Al-Balad

Author : Sawsan Messiri
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004056640
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Ibn Al-Balad written by Sawsan Messiri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set

Author : Bruno Jacobs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119174287
Total Pages : 1747 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set written by Bruno Jacobs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 1747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO THE ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE A comprehensive review of the political, cultural, social, economic and religious history of the Achaemenid Empirem Often called the first world empire, the Achaemenid Empire is rooted in older Near Eastern traditions. A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire offers a perspective in which the history of the empire is embedded in the preceding and subsequent epochs. In this way, the traditions that shaped the Achaemenid Empire become as visible as the powerful impact it had on further historical development. But the work does not only break new ground in this respect, but also in the fact that, in addition to written testimonies of all kinds, it also considers material tradition as an equal factor in historical reconstruction. This comprehensive two-volume set features contributions by internationally-recognized experts that offer balanced coverage of the whole of the empire from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia. Comprehensive in scope, the Companion provides readers with a panoramic view of the diversity, richness, and complexity of the Achaemenid Empire, dealing with all the many aspects of history, event history, administration, economy, society, communication, art, science and religion, illustrating the multifaceted nature of the first true empire. A unique historical account presented in its multiregional dimensions, this important resource deals with many aspects of history, administration, economy, society, communication, art, science and religion it deals with topics that have only recently attracted interest such as court life, leisure activities, gender roles, and more examines a variety of available sources to consider those predecessors who influenced Achaemenid structure, ideology, and self-expression contains the study of Nachleben and the history of perception up to the present day offers a spectrum of opinions in disputed fields of research, such as the interpretation of the imagery of Achaemenid art, or questions of religion includes extensive bibliographies in each chapter for use as starting points for further research devotes special interest to the east of the empire, which is often neglected in comparison to the western territories Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series, A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire is an indispensable work for students, instructors, and scholars of Persian and ancient world history, particularly the First Persian Empire.

History of the Persian Empire

Author : A. T. Olmstead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826333
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book History of the Persian Empire written by A. T. Olmstead and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff