Elephantine in context: studies on the history, religion and literature of the Judeans in Persian period Egypt
"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 co...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Edited Volume |
| Sprache: | Englisch Deutsch |
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
[2022]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Forschungen zum Alten Testament
155 |
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Forschungen zum Alten Testament (155)
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| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, Inhaltstext: http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=ca5d36ca50d54ef69c6706b6d36ead4a&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://d-nb.info/1242194436/04 
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| Verfasserangaben: | edited by Reinhard G. Kratz and Bernd U. Schipper |
| Zusammenfassung: | "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." |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| ISBN: | 9783161609961 |