{"product_id":"elephantine-in-context-reinhard-gregor-kratz-9783161609961","title":"Elephantine in Context: Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Persian Period Egypt","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reinhard Gregor Kratz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3161609964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783161609961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mohr Siebeck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.67lbs","brand":"Reinhard Gregor Kratz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48113826234623,"sku":"9783161609961","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_74f68cfa-6a40-40ec-b682-a696caf0ce6a.jpg?v=1769617463","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/elephantine-in-context-reinhard-gregor-kratz-9783161609961","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}