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• The acknowledgment of receipt clause
• The investiture clause
• The warranty clause.

Ever since the Elephantine papyri were first published over a century ago, scholars have speculated on the origins of the well-developed legal formularies used in these documents. Since then, many more Aramaic deeds of conveyance both from Elephantine and from elsewhere have been published, especially within the last decade or so. With this expanded text base now available, the time is ripe for a comprehensive re-assessment of these legal formularies. This book endeavors to show that these disparate Aramaic documents, whose chronological scope spans several centuries, form a discrete and coherent tradition. It isolates and identifies the distinctive elements that form the core of this tradition and traces the histories of these elements back through the cuneiform record.
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This important volume contains 170 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of the Elephantine and Syene (Aswan), which yielded hundreds of papyri in Hieratic, Demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin and Coptic, spanning a period of 3000 years. The documents include letters from legal documents and accounts from family and other archives, and are thus an invaluable source of knowledge of epistolography, law, society, religion, language and onomastic in this unique site and over this long period of time to scholars of varied disciplines. The volume contains five sections, each containing carefully translated and extensively annotated documents of one language group. Excellent cross-referencing allows the user to trace forerunners and successors. Each section is preceded by an introduction, and the book closes with a glossary of technical terms in five languages.
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An analysis of the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine. The author investigates the formative background of these documents through extensive references to cuneiform law, by a method he calls "the Assyriological approach". Virtually every aspect of law is covered.
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• 1. Introduction: The Egyptological Approach to the the Study of Aramaic Legal Formulae-- The Elephantine Community and Aramaic Law--
• 3. The 'Withdrawal' and Related Formulae in the Aramaic Legal Tradition--
• 4. The use of WAy in the Egyptian Legal Tradition--
• 5. A Comparison of the Aramaic and Egyptian Uses of Withdrawal Clauses--
• 6. Reconsidering the origins of Aramaic and Demotic Legal Formulae.
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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.
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• List of Tables-- Abbreviations-- Introduction: The Egyptological Approach to the Study of Aramaic Legal Formulae-- The Elephantine Community and Aramaic Law-- The Egyptian Fomularly Tradition-- Challenging the Consensus: The ???? Clause-- The 'Withdrawal' and Related Formulae in the Aramaic Legal Tradition-- The Use of ____ in the Egyptian Legal Tradition-- A Comparison of the Aramaic and Egyptian Uses of Withdrawal Clauses-- Reconsidering the origins of Aramaic and Demotic Legal Formulae-- Works Cited.
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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.
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• Introduction --The acknowledgment of receipt clause
• The investiture clause
• The warranty clause
• Conclusion.

Ever since the Elephantine papyri were first published over a century ago, scholars have speculated on the origins of the well-developed legal formularies used in these documents. Since then, many more Aramaic deeds of conveyance both from Elephantine and from elsewhere have been published, especially within the last decade or so. With this expanded text base now available, the time is ripe for a comprehensive re-assessment of these legal formularies. This book endeavors to show that these disparate Aramaic documents, whose chronological scope spans several centuries, form a discrete and coherent tradition. It isolates and identifies the distinctive elements that form the core of this tradition and traces the histories of these elements back through the cuneiform record.
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• Preface Mr. Elephantine, Bezalel Porten Bezalel Porten Curriculum Vitae List of Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria Abbreviations Aramaic Studies / Elephantine
• Chapter 1: Women of Elephantine and Women in the Land of Israel Annalisa Azzoni
• Chapter 2: Der Wandel des Aramaischen veranschaulicht durch Transkriptionen alter aramaischer Texte Klaus Beyer
• Chapter 3: Three Additional Aramaic-Egyptian Parallel Legal Terms/Formulae Alejandro F. Botta
• Chapter 4: The Career of Some Elephantine and Murasu Scribes and Witnesses Eleonora Cussini
• Chapter 5: Phoenician and Aramaic Inscriptions from Abusir Jan Dusek and Jana Mynarova
• Chapter 6: On -I , rakkasu, and raksu Frederick Mario Fales
• Chapter 7: Rare Demonstrative Pronouns in Targum Onqelos: : and
• Margaretha Folmer
• Chapter 8: Elephantine and the Torah Lester L. Grabbe
• Chapter 9: Gleanings from the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon II: Notes on the State of Modern Syriac Lexicography Stephen Kaufman
• Chapter 10: Le Dialecte Arameen de L'inscription De Kuttamuwa (Zencirli, Viiie S. Av. N. E.) Andre Lemaire
• Chapter 11: Clermont-Ganneau
• 253: une revisite et un reclassement obliges Helene Lozachmeur
• Chapter 12: Epistolographische Elemente in den neuveroeffentlichten aramaischen Ostrakonbriefen aus Elephantine (Sammlung Clermont-Ganneau) Dirk Schwiderski
• Chapter 13: Le phenomene de mutation des interdentales en arameen, ou la Quete de "la langue parfaite". De la reforme orthographique a l'epoque perse a la differenciation maxima Ursula Schattner-Rieser
• Chapter 14: Die "Festung" von Elephantine in der Spatzeit -Anmerkungen zum archaologischen Befund Cornelius von Pilgrim
• Chapter 15: Twelve Published and Unpublished Jewish Aramaic Ostraca Written in the `Jewish' Cursive Script Ada Yardeni Biblical Studies
• Chapter 16: Metaphor in the Book of Psalms or the Book of Psalms as Metaphor? Stephen A. Geller
• Chapter 17: Revisiting the Date of King Josiah's Death Dan'el Kahn
• Chapter 18: "Wisdom is of the Gods--" An Aramaic Antecedent to Proverbs 8 (Or: The Case of the Vanishing Evidence!) James M. Lindenberger
• Chapter 19: Does the Enigmatic Phrase
• (Hab 3:9) Represent Liturgical Glosses? David Marcus
• Chapter 20: Philological Notes on the David-Bathsheba Story I Takamitsu Muraoka
• Chapter 21: The First Born/Eldest Son of Death/The Underworld, Job 18:13 Shalom M. Paul
• Chapter 22: A Poem within a Poem: Some Literary Aspects of the Lament for Saul and Jonathan Jan-Wim Wesselius Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• Chapter 23: The Role of the Governor in Persian Imperial Administration Lisbeth S. Fried
• Chapter 24: Emar and the Elephantine Papyri Andrew D. Gross
• Chapter 25: Setting Another Tablet Right: the Ugaritic Text RS 2.[031] Dennis Pardee
• Chapter 26: Ad Nomen Argumenta: Personal Names as Pejorative Puns in Ancient Texts Christopher A. Rollston
• Chapter 27: The Archive of Samas-Sarra-Usur from Calah Ran Zadok
• Chapter 28: Der agyptische Name der Juden Karl-Theodor Zauzich.
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Twenty nine scholars from Israel, Europe and the Americas came together to honor and celebrate Prof. Bezalel Porten's (Emeritus, Dept. of History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) academic career. Covering a wide variety of topics within Aramaic, Biblical, and ancient Near Eastern Studies, In the Shadow of Bezalel offers new insights and proposals in the areas of Aramaic language, paleography, onomastica and lexicography; ancient Near Eastern legal traditions, Hebrew Bible, and social history of the Persian period.
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