Becoming diaspora Jews : behind the story of Elephantine /

This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. The colony that lived at Elephantine Island in the fifth century BCE is an icon of the Jewish diaspora, but there is something unusual about it. These people had abandoned Hebrew for Aramaic an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Toorn, K. van der (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:Anchor Yale Bible reference library.
Subjects:
Papyrus Amherst. > 63.
Jewish diaspora > History.
Judaism > History.
Jews > Egypt > Elephantine > History.
Arameans > Egypt.
Diaspora juive > Histoire.
Judaïsme > Histoire.
Araméens > Égypte.
RELIGION > Judaism > History.
Arameans
Jewish diaspora
Jews
Judaism
Elephantine (Egypt)
Éléphantine (Égypte)
Egypt
Egypt > Elephantine
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Elephantine revisited
  • The Aramean heritage
  • The Aramean diaspora in Egypt
  • The origins of the Elephantine Jews
  • A military colony and its religion
  • Becoming diaspora Jews
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Translation of Papyrus Amherst 63, adapted from AOAT 448.

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