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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.
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 multivolume textbook classifies these ostraca
according to subject matter and brings them together into a single
publication. With this fourth installment, Bezalel Porten and Ada
Yardeni continue their comprehensive edition of Aramaic ostraca
from Idumea. Volumes 1-3 published and cataloged 255 Personal Name
Dossiers containing 1,152 texts. Volume 4 contains 377 texts
divided into six dossiers, including 54 payment orders, 77
accounts, 74 workers texts, 62 names, 87 jar inscriptions, and 23
letters. The payment orders document officially authorized
transfers of goods, while the accounts show how those goods were
inventoried. The workers texts illustrate the distribution and
supply of laborers, the name lists show people as individuals, and
the jar inscriptions track vessels in motion. Color photographs,
ceramic descriptions, hand-copies, transcriptions, translations,
and commentaries are provided for the texts, along with figures and
tables, and introductions and summaries of each dossier. A unique
source for the onomastics and social and economic history of
fourth-century Idumea-and, by extension, of Judah-this multivolume
work will become the primary resource for information on these
texts.
This work is a KWIC (key-word-in-context) concordance and
prosopography of the Aramaic documents from ancient Egypt as
published in the four-volume edition edited by B. Porten and A.
Yardeni: Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt. Most of
the documents indexed here are from the Persian period; they are
legal, epistolary, and administrative. This comprehensive
concordance will prove very useful to students of Aramaic who wish
to have access to the collocations presented, students of the
society and history of Persian-era Egypt, as well as those
interested in personal names and their contribution to our
understanding of both history and language. Published by
Eisenbrauns for the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon project.
Since 1991, some 2,000 Aramaic ostraca deriving from the south of
Israel have appeared on the antiquities market and are now
scattered in 9 museums and libraries and 21 private collections. Of
these, the majority are still not formally published, and in this
second volume in the series, Bezalel Porten continues the
publication of this important corpus of 4th century B.C.E. economic
texts. With the expert epigraphic assistance of Ada Yardeni and
hand-copies by her as well, Porten here provides the second volume
of texts, organized by “dossier” based on the primary personage
cited in the text. Color photographs (where available), ceramic
descriptions, hand-copies, transcription, translation, and
commentary are provided for each text, along with tables of seven
grain dossiers. This publication will become the primary resource
for information on these texts, which provide insight into the
economic, social, and religious lives of Idumeans in the late
Persian and early Hellenistic periods.
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