Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004669079
Series Statement:
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive pre-2000 22
Content:
This important volume contains 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan), which yielded hundreds of papyri in hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin and Coptic, spanning a period of 2000 years. The documents include letters and legal contracts from family and other archives, and are thus an invaluable source of knowledge for scholars of varied disciplines such as epistolography, law, society, religion, language and onomastics. The volume includes seven sections, each containing carefully translated and extensively annotated documents of one language group. Excellent cross-referencing allows the user to trace forerunners and successors. Each section is preceded by an introduction. The Aramaic, Demotic and Greek sections are concluded with a prospography. The book closes with a select topical index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Front Matter -- Preliminary Material /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004101975
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Elephantine Papyri in English : Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change Leiden : Brill, 1996 ISBN 9789004101975
Language:
English
DOI:
110.1163/9789004669079
