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Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 5 - Dossiers H–K: 485 Ostraca (Hardcover)
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Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 5 - Dossiers H–K: 485 Ostraca (Hardcover)
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Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca
have found their way onto the antiquities market and are now
scattered across a number of museums, libraries, and private
collections. This fifth and final volume of the Textbook of Aramaic
Ostraca from Idumea completes the work of bringing these ostraca
together in a single publication. Volumes 1–4 published some
1,600 ostraca that gave us insight into agriculture, economics,
politics, onomastics, and scribal practices from
fourth/third-century BCE Idumea and Judah. The ostraca in volume 5
come from the same milieu, but the information they provide is
entirely new and different. This volume presents 485 ostraca,
including 99 land descriptions, 168 uncertain texts, and 218
assorted remains, scribal exercises, and forgeries, along with
useful indexes and tables and a comparative list of entries. The
land descriptions—which record local landmarks, ownership
boundaries, and land registration—provide rich complementary
material to the rest of the Idumean ostraca. The “uncertain
texts” are fragmentary, in poor condition, or contain other
abnormalities. As the TAO corpus becomes better understood and as
imaging techniques improve, these texts will help to fill gaps in
knowledge. The final section includes the remains of scribal
practices and forgeries, important because they help to show the
authenticity of the other two thousand pieces. A unique collection
of documentary sources for fourth/third-century BCE Idumea—and,
by extension, Judah—this multivolume work will be a powerful
resource for those interested in onomastics and social and economic
history.
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