The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine

The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine
Author: Alejandro F. Botta
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-06-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567156249

This is a study of the interrelationships between the formulary traditions of the legal documents of the Jewish colony of Elephantine and the legal formulary traditions of their Egyptian counterparts. The legal documents of Elephantine have been approached in three different ways thus far: first, comparing them to the later Aramaic legal tradition; second, as part of a self-contained system, and more recently from the point of view of the Assyriological legal tradition. However, there is still a fourth possible approach, which has long been neglected by scholars in this field, and that is to study the Elephantine legal documents from an Egyptological perspective. In seeking the Egyptian parallels and antecedents to the Aramaic formulary, Botta hopes to balance the current scholarly perspective, based mostly upon Aramaic and Assyriological comparative studies.

Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1988
Genre: Akkadian language
ISBN: 2503517404

Volume One: 120 ancient Mesopotamian texts from the Metropolitan Museum's extensive collection of cuneiform tablets are published here in a projected multi-volume edition. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.