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Identity in Persian Egypt - The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine (Hardcover)
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Identity in Persian Egypt - The Fate of the Yehudite Community of Elephantine (Hardcover)
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In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date
overview of the origins, lives, and eventual fate of the Yehudites,
or Judeans, at Elephantine, framed within the greater history of
the rise and fall of the Persian Empire. The Yehudites were among
those mercenaries recruited by the Persians to defend the
southwestern border of the empire in the fifth century BCE. Becking
argues that this group, whom some label as the first "Jews," lived
on the island of Elephantine in relative peace with other ethnic
groups under the aegis of the pax persica. Drawing on Aramaic and
Demotic texts discovered during excavations on the island and at
Syene on the adjacent shore of the Nile, Becking finds evidence of
intermarriage, trade cooperation, and even a limited acceptance of
one another's gods between the various ethnic groups at
Elephantine. His analysis of the Elephantine Yehudites' unorthodox
form of Yahwism provides valuable insight into the group's
religious beliefs and practices. An important contribution to the
study of Yehudite life in the diaspora, this accessibly written and
sweeping history enhances our understanding of the varieties of
early Jewish life and how these contributed to the construction of
Judaism.
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