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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Main Author: Toorn, Karel van der 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2019]
Series:The anchor Yale bible reference library
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Online Access:DE-188
Summary: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 and venerated several Aramean gods beside the ancestral Jewish god. Karel van der Toorn studies an unexplored papyrus to shed new light on their history
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 270 Seiten)
ISBN:9780300249491

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