%0 Book
%T Elephantine in context: studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt
%E Kratz, Reinhard Gregor
%E Schipper, Bernd U.
%S Forschungen zum Alten Testament 155
%D 2022
%I Mohr Siebeck
%C Tübingen
%@ 9783161609961
%G English
%F 1772606944
%O edited by Reinhard G. Kratz and Bernd U. Schipper
%O Literaturangaben
%O Beiträge überwiegend englisch, teilweise deutsch
%O Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet PEBW pdager DE-24
%O Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet FID pdager DE-16
%X "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."
%L ALT-AY
%K History
%K Jews
%K Egypt
%K Elephantine
%K Religion
%K Jews - Egypt - Elephantine - History - To 70 A.D
%K Jews - Egypt - Civilization
%K Judaism - Egypt - History
%K Elephantine (Egypt)
%K Éléphantine (Égypte) - Religion
%K Egypt - Elephantine
%K Elephantine (Egypt) - Religion
%9 Text
%9 Aufsatzsammlung