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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450552803321

Titolo

Semitic papyrology in context [[electronic resource] ] : a climate of creativity : papers from a New York University conference marking the retirement of Baruch A. Levine / / edited by Lawrence A. Schiffman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, Mass., : Brill, 2003

ISBN

1-280-46711-8

9786610467112

1-4237-1455-5

90-474-0185-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Culture and history of the ancient Near East, , 1566-2055 ; ; v. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

SchiffmanLawrence H

Disciplina

492/.0411

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Semitic (Papyri)

Paleography, Semitic

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers given at a conference on March 5-7, 2000 at New York University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; Ancient Egyptian Scripts-Literary, Sacred, and Profane; The Samaria Papyri and the Babylonio-Aramean Symbiosis; Elephantine and the Bible; The Corpus of the Qumran Papyri; The Roman Census in the Papyri from the Judaean Desert and the Egyptian κατ' οικιαν απογραφη;́ The Language of Power: Latin in the Inscriptions of Iudaea/Syria Palaestina; Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish and Roman Law: הרימאב םינקנה םירבד and dotis dictio; Witnesses and Signatures in the Hebrew and Aramaic Documents from the Bar Kokhba Caves; The Roman Near East: The View from Below

The Decipherment and Edition of the Petra Papyri: Preliminary ObservationsAn Early Arabic Legal Papyrus; The Voice of the Jewish Poor in the Cairo Genizah; Epilogue; Index of Ancient Sources Cited

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of studies relating to the multicultural traditions of papyrus writing in the Ancient Near East, with attention to the linguistic, literary and cultural features of these, often documentary, texts. The papers were presented at a conference marking Professor Levine's retirement.