Archives From Elephantine: The Life of an Ancient Jewish Military Colony
by Porten, Bezalel
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn and darkened dust jacket, 421 pages with frontispiece map, illustrations and 16 photographic plates. Important economic, religious, and social study of the ancient Jewish settlement on the island of Elephantine. During the 5th century B.C., the southern frontier of ancient Egypt was guarded by an Aramean garrison at Syene (modern Aswan) and a Jewish garrison on the adjacent island of Elephantine. This study is an interpretation of the well-known group of Aramaic papyrus texts found on the site at the beginning of the 20th century. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Record # 385379
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- Archives From Elephantine: The Life of an Ancient Jewish Military Colony
- Author
- Porten, Bezalel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1968
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- History, MidEast, , .
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