The Early-Roman Period (30 BCE–117 CE)

The Early-Roman period (30 BCE-117 CE) / in collaboration with Deborah Jacobs, Meron M. Piotrkowski and Zsuzsanna Szántó
ISBN: 978-3-11-078599-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Band Volume 5, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 781 g

Reihe: Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum

The period between the Roman take-over of Egypt (30 BCE) and the failure of the Jewish diaspora revolt (115–117 CE) witnessed the continual devaluation in the status of the Jews in Egypt, and culminated in the destruction of its Jewish community. This volume collects and presents all papyri, ostraca, amulets and inscriptions from this early Roman period connected to Jews and Judaism, published since 1957. It is a follow-up of the 1960 volume 2 of the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. It includes over 80 documents in Greek, Demotic, and Hebrew, both documentary and literary. The expansion of the scope of documents, to include languages other than Greek and genres beyond the documentary, allows for a better understanding of the life of the Jews in Egypt. The documents published in this volume shed new light on aspects discussed previously: The Demotic papyri better explain the Jewish settlement in Edfu, new papyri reveal more about Jewish tax, about the Acta papyri, and about the developments of the Jewish revolt. The magical papyri help explain cultural developments in the Jewish community of Egypt. This volume is thus a major contribution to the study of the decline of the greatest diaspora Jewish community in antiquity.

Zielgruppe

Papyrologists; Historians of ancient Judaism; Biblical Scholars;

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hacham, Noah

Ilan, Tal

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jacobs, Deborah

Piotrkowski, Meron M.

Szántó, Zsuzsanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Über Autor(innen)

Noah Hacham, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Tal Ilan, Free University of Berlin, Germany.