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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807997703321

Autore

Botta Alejandro F. <1960->

Titolo

The Aramaic and Egyptian legal traditions at Elephantine : an Egyptological approach / / Alejandro F. Botta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY, : T & T Clark, c2009

ISBN

1-282-86804-7

9786612868047

0-567-15624-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Library of Second Temple studies ; ; 64

Disciplina

340.532

Soggetti

Law - Egypt - Elephantine - History - To 1500

Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri) - Egypt - Elephantine

Law, Ancient

Jewish law - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-233]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE EGYPTOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF ARAMAIC LEGAL FORMULAE; Chapter 2 THE ELEPHANTINE COMMUNITY AND ARAMAIC LAW; Chapter 3 THE EGYPTIAN FORMULARY TRADITION; Chapter 4 CHALLENGING THE CONSENSUS: THE (omitted) CLAUSE; Chapter 5 THE 'WITHDRAWAL' AND RELATED FORMULAE IN THE ARAMAIC LEGAL TRADITION; Chapter 6 THE USE OF w(omitted)y IN THE EGYPTIAN LEGAL TRADITION; Chapter 7 A COMPARISON OF THE ARAMAIC AND EGYPTIAN USES OF WITHDRAWAL FORMULAE

Chapter 8 RECONSIDERING THE ORIGINS OF ARAMAIC AND DEMOTIC LEGAL FORMULAEWORKS CITED; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 t