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FROM MIGDOL TO SYENE
Documents Pertaining to Jews in Egypt in the Persian Period
Bezalel Porten
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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