This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. The colony that lived at Elephantine Island in the fifth century BCE is an icon of the Jewish diaspora, but there is something unusual about it. These people had abandoned …
This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. The colony that lived at Elephantine Island in the fifth century BCE is an icon of the Jewish diaspora, but there is something unusual about it. These people had abandoned …
How Persian power entered Egypt -- Yehudites at Elephantine : provenance, identity, and religion -- Multiethnic Elephantine : some remarks on different minor ethnicities in a Persian border garrison -- Pax Persica : cooperation, cohabitation, and acceptance -- Control through ed…
"Long recognized as a brilliant cross-cultural study, Yochanan Muffs' work analyzes the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine, at the first cataract of the Nile, where a Persian garrison comprised of Jewish soldiers and their families lived throughout most of th…
Main description: In this monograph the author examines the literary and formal interconnections between the Aramaic proverbs of Achikar The Wise, in their oldest, Ancient Aramaic versions originating from Egypt, and the Old Testament Wisdom Literature. It is thus the first exte…
Die Monografie widmet sich der literatur-, form- und gattungsgeschichtlichen Untersuchung des umfangreichsten in altaramäischer Sprache erhaltenen weisheitlichen Spruchkorpus. Die Papyri, auf denen sich die Sammlung in ihrer ältesten Traditionsstufe erhalten hat, wurden zu Begin…
