Teaching Elephantine to Theological Students: A Round-Table
Teaching Elephantine to Theological Students: A Round-Table
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向神学生教授大象:圆桌会议
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10.1080/09018328.2019.1686290
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2019
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通讯作者:
Reinhard G. Kratz
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作者:
Reinhard G. Kratz
Elephantine is a name well-known to scholars of Israelite religion and early Judaism: an island in the Nile River, supposedly elephant-shaped, it has for millennia marked the southern border of Egypt. As such, it was also the site of a fortress in antiquity. From at least the seventh century BCE, the Egyptians staffed the fortress with a garrison, or perhaps a cleruchy, made up of expatriate soldiers. When the Persian Empire conquered Egypt in 525 BCE, they kept these same soldiers in their employ. A trove of Aramaic documents from this time period witnesses to the everyday life and community challenges of this military outpost. But the interest of these materials to research on Israelite religion and Judaism lies in this: that the military community on the island called themselves yehudayya—Jews or Judeans—and they worshipped the Jewish God YHW (H) in their own temple there. These Aramaic documents generated intense academic discussion when they were first recovered in the early twentieth century. They have also received increased attention here in the early twenty-first: several largescale research projects have attracted substantial funding and promise to change the field. 1 A series of monographs—“almost one book a year” 2—have in-
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2011
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作者:
Christophe Nihan
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Christophe Nihan
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2008
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作者:
A. Botta
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A. Botta