The Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca consist of thousands of documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Aswan, which yielded hundreds...
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Aramaic documents of the Elephantine Papyri and Ostraca is the Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. Elephantine, or what ancient Egyptians...
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Pompeii and Herculaneum Ercolano Dunhuang manuscripts – similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents Elephantine papyri and ostraca – similar...
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Sanballat the Horonite (section Elephantine papyri)
century BC. He and his family are mentioned in the contemporary Elephantine papyri and ostraca. In Hebrew the name is Sanḇallaṭ (Hebrew: סַנְבַלַּט). Eberhard...
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briefly mentioned by Josephus and is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah 12:22. Among the Elephantine papyri and ostraca, a collection of 5th century BCE...
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Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt (category Egyptian papyri in Aramaic)
Saqqarah papyri and most of the Clermont-Ganneau ostraca. It is the standard reference textbook for the Aramaic Elephantine papyri and ostraca, as well...
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Yahwism (category Religion in ancient Israel and Judah)
pluralism Kenite hypothesis Origins of Judaism Two House theology Elephantine papyri and ostraca A possible candidate for an earlier occurrence of the name "Yahweh"...
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Tel Arad probably referring to the Temple at Jerusalem. Elephantine papyri – ancient Jewish papyri dating to the 5th century BC, name three persons mentioned...
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Imperial Aramaic (section Name and classification)
those terms continue to be used differently by scholars. The Elephantine papyri and ostraca, as well as other Egyptian texts, are the largest group of extant...
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are a set of six ostraca found among the Elephantine papyri and ostraca, from the 3rd century BC that deal with propositions XIII.10 and XIII.16, on the...
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literature, and notes that Bethel is mentioned, but with no details, in the Elephantine papyri and ostraca and the Hermopolis Aramaic papyri. Those papyri also...
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Passover (section Origins and theories)
in the Elephantine papyri and ostraca in an Imperial Aramaic papyrus letter from the 5th century BCE from Elephantine, Egypt. The slaughter of the lambs...
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Dunhuang manuscripts (section Languages and scripts)
ancient religious and secular documents Dunhuang Manichaean texts Elephantine papyri and ostraca, similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents...
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Yehud Medinata (category Ancient Israel and Judah)
Yahwism still appeared to exist in the Persian period: the Elephantine papyri and ostraca (usually dated to the 5th century BCE) shows that a small community...
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Tetragrammaton (redirect from Hebrew Word 3068 and Hebrew Word 3069)
Troyer says that YHW or YHH, and also YH, are attested in the fifth and fourth-century BCE papyri from Elephantine and Wadi Daliyeh: "In both collections...
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Padua. The papyri are unprovenanced, but are thought to have been from Elephantine, which would make them the first Elephantine papyri and ostraca to have...
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el-Ahmar El-Khokha El-Kurru El-Tarif Elephant (pharaoh) Elephantine papyri and ostraca Elephantine Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt family tree Eleventh Dynasty...
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Hama (section Persian, Hellenistic and Roman history)
large corpus of materials in Imperial Aramaic known as the Elephantine papyri and ostraca. The few Biblical reports state that Hamath was the capital...
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scientists. Elephantine papyri and ostraca EpiDoc Epigraphy Greek Magical Papyri Leiden Conventions Magdalen papyrus Nag Hammadi library Oxyrhynchus Papyri Palaeography...
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History of the Jews in Egypt (category Jews and Judaism in Egypt)
record by around 1200 BCE. In the Elephantine papyri and ostraca (c. 500 – 300 BCE), caches of legal documents and letters written in Aramaic amply document...
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Philo (section Ethics and politics)
Translation, and Commentary. Chico, CA: Scholars Press. ISBN 9780891304722. Land of Onias Cairo Geniza Elephantine papyri and ostraca "Philo" is the...
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(CIS II 141) KAI 270: Dream ostracon (CIS II 137) KAI 271: Elephantine papyri and ostraca (CIS II 138) KAI 272: Ankh-Hapy stele (CIS II 142) KAI 273:...
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ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans. Semitic inscriptions may occur on stone slabs, pottery ostraca, ornaments, and range from simple names to full...
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Second Temple period (section Import and export)
Hellenistic period. Elephantine's Jewish community has adopted Aramaic, and it was the main language used in the Elephantine papyri and ostraca. Jesus, a native...
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at least five papyri and 30 ostraca. Most other such narratives are known from one period, whereas Sinuhe spans the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom. The...
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Story of Ahikar (category Egyptian papyri in Aramaic)
Aramaic from the fifth century BCE on papyri from Elephantine, Egypt, that circulated widely in the Middle and the Near East. It has been characterised...
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Ramesses XI. Narrative tales and stories are most often found on papyri, but partial and sometimes complete texts are found on ostraca. For example, Sinuhe is...
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Afghan Geniza (category Jews and Judaism in Afghanistan)
religious and secular documents Dunhuang manuscripts, similar cache of ancient religious and secular documents Elephantine papyri and ostraca Herculaneum...
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A memorial volume, Monastic Estates in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt. Ostraca, Papyri, and Essays in Memory of Sarah Clackson (P. Clackson), edited...
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