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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Azzoni, Annalisa,; Becking, Bob,; Botta, Alejandro F.,; Folmer, Margaretha,; Grabbe, Lester L.,; Kottsieper, Ingo,; Kratz, Reinhard G.,; Lemaire, André,; Nutkowicz, Hélène,; Pilgrim, Cornelius von,
• HerausgeberIn: Folmer, Margaretha,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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 f...

Table of 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