TY  - BOOK
ED  - Kratz, Reinhard Gregor
ED  - Schipper, Bernd U.
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022//
TI  - Elephantine in context: studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt
T3  - Forschungen zum Alten Testament 155
PB  - Mohr Siebeck
CY  - Tübingen
KW  - History
KW  - Jews
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Elephantine
KW  - Religion
KW  - Jews - Egypt - Elephantine - History - To 70 A.D
KW  - Jews - Egypt - Civilization
KW  - Judaism - Egypt - History
KW  - Elephantine (Egypt)
KW  - Éléphantine (Égypte) - Religion
KW  - Egypt - Elephantine
KW  - Elephantine (Egypt) - Religion
AB  - "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."
SN  - 9783161609961
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Reinhard G. Kratz and Bernd U. Schipper
ID  - 1772606944
ER  -