Studies in the Aramaic legal papyri from Elephantine / / by Yochanan Muffs ; with prolegomenon by Baruch A. Levine.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, Near and Middle East, Volume 66
• VerfasserIn: Muffs, Yochanan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Levine, Baruch A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2003.; ©2003
• প্রকাশনার বছর: 2003
• ভাষা: English
• মালা: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Volume 66.
• দৈহিক বর্ননা: 1 online resource (362 pages).

Long recognized as a brilliant cross-cultural study, Yochanan Muffs’ work analyzes the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine, at the first cataract of the Nile, where a Persian garrison comprised of Jewish soldiers and their families lived throughout most of the 5th century B.C.E. T...