Publication

2019 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780300243512
  • ISBN-100300243510
  • OCLC Control Number1089574817
  • Better World Books9780300243512
  • Open LibraryOL28725978M

Classifications

  • LCCDS135.E42 E548 2019

Description

This book tells the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has never been told before. The colony that lived at Elephantine Island in the fifth century BCE is an icon of the Jewish diaspora, but there is something unusual about it. These people had abandoned Hebrew for Aramaic and venerated several Aramean gods beside the ancestral Jewish god. Karel van der Toorn studies an unexplored papyrus to shed new light on their history.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Becoming Diaspora JewsYale University Press2019

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