The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780567045331)

This is a study of the interrelationships between the formulary traditions of the legal documents of the Jewish colony of Elephantine and the legal formulary traditions of their Egyptian counterparts.

The legal documents of Elephantine have been approached in three different ways thus far: first, comparing them to the later Aramaic legal tradition; second, as part of a self-contained system, and more recently from the point of view of the Assyriological legal tradition. However, there is still a fourth possible approach, which has long been neglected by scholars in this field, and that is to study the Elephantine legal documents from an Egyptological perspective. In seeking the Egyptian parallels and antecedents to the Aramaic formulary, Botta hopes to balance the current scholarly perspective, based mostly upon Aramaic and Assyriological comparative studies.

Author: Alejandro F. Botta
ISBN-10: 0567045331
ISBN-13: 9780567045331
Publisher: T&T Clark
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 192