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Author Toorn, K. van der, author.

Title Becoming diaspora Jews : behind the story of Elephantine / Karel van der Toorn.

Publication Info. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Anchor Yale Bible reference library
Anchor Yale Bible reference library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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.
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Subject Papyrus Amherst. 63.
Jewish diaspora -- History.
Jewish diaspora.
History.
Judaism -- History.
Judaism.
Jews -- Egypt -- Elephantine -- History.
Egypt -- Elephantine.
Arameans -- Egypt.
Jews.
Arameans.
Elephantine (Egypt)
Egypt.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Toorn, K. van der. Becoming diaspora Jews. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300243512 (DLC) 2019930737 (OCoLC)1089574817
ISBN 9780300249491 (ebook)
0300249497 (ebook)
9780300243512 (hardback)
0300243510 (hardback)