The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach

by Alejandro F. Botta

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567120368
• ISBN13: 9780567120366
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"