FROM MIGDOL TO SYENE

An extensive collection of nearly all the papyri in Aramaic pertaining to the Jewish community of Elephantine (יֵב) from the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. The Elephantine papyri are caches of legal documents and letters written in Aramaic, which document a Jewish community, perhaps made up of mercenaries, who resided on this small island on the border between Upper Egypt and Nubia (Sudan). 

Hebrew Translation and Drawing of the Documents: Ada Yardeni

ISBN 978-965-536-261-9

178 + XXVI pp

THE BIBLICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA LIBRARY XXXVII
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA MIQRA’IT (ENCYCLOPAEDIA BIBLICA)
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