Semitic papyrology in context : : a climate of creativity : papers from a New York University conference marking the retirement of Baruch A. Levine / / edited by Lawrence A. Schiffman.

• Superior document: Culture and history of the ancient Near East,
• TeilnehmendeR: Schiffman, Lawrence H.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) :; illustrations, map
• Notes: Papers given at a conference on March 5-7, 2000 at New York University.

A collection of studies relating to the multicultural traditions of papyrus writing in the Ancient Near East, with attention to the linguistic, literary and cultural features of these, often documentary, texts. The papers were presented at a conference marking Professor Levine's retirement.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; Ancient Egyptian Scripts-Literary, Sacred, and Profane; The Samaria Papyri and the Babylonio-Aramean Symbiosis; Elephantine and the Bible; The Corpus of the Qumran Papyri; The Roman Census in the Papyri from the Judaean Desert and the Egyptian κατ' οικιαν απογραφη;́ The Language of Power: Latin in the Inscriptions of Iudaea/Syria Palaestina; Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish and Roman Law: הרימאב םינקנה םירבד and dotis dictio; Witnesses and Signatures in the Hebrew and Aramaic Documents from the Bar Kokhba Caves; The Roman Near East: The View from Below

The Decipherment and Edition of the Petra Papyri: Preliminary Observations; An Early Arabic Legal Papyrus; The Voice of the Jewish Poor in the Cairo Genizah; Epilogue; Index of Ancient Sources Cited