Hacham / Ilan [The Ptolemaic Period (323 BCE–30 BCE)]

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-067452-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 4, 373 Seiten

Reihe: Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum

The edition collects and presents all papyri and ostraca from the Ptolemaic period, connected to Jews and Judaism, published since 1957. It is a follow-up to the (= CPJ) of the 1950s and 60s, edited by Victor Tcherikover, which had consisted of three volumes – I devoted to the Ptolemaic period; II to the Early Roman period (until 117 CE); and III to the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. The present book, vol. IV, is the first in a new trilogy, and is devoted to the Ptolemaic period.

The present and upcoming volumes supplement the original . They present over 300 papyri that have been published since 1957. They also include papyri in languages other than Greek (Hebrew, Aramaic, Demotic), and literary papyri which had not been included in the old . Aside from quite a number of papyri in these categories, the present volume (of over 100 documents) includes 21 papyri from Herakleopolis in Middle-Egypt that record the existence of a Jewish self-ruling body – the . These papyri put an end to a long-standing dispute over whether such a Jewish institution had ever existed in Egypt.

Zielgruppe

Papyrologists; Historians of ancient Judaism; Biblical Scholars;

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hacham, Noah

Ilan, Tal

Über Autor(innen)

Noah Hacham, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Tal Ilan, Free University of Berlin, Germany.