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The period between the Roman take-over of Egypt (30 BCE) and the
failure of the Jewish diaspora revolt (115-117 CE) witnessed the
continual devaluation in the status of the Jews in Egypt, and
culminated in the destruction of its Jewish community. This volume
collects and presents all papyri, ostraca, amulets and inscriptions
from this early Roman period connected to Jews and Judaism,
published since 1957. It is a follow-up of the 1960 volume 2 of the
Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. It includes over 80 documents in
Greek, Demotic, and Hebrew, both documentary and literary. The
expansion of the scope of documents, to include languages other
than Greek and genres beyond the documentary, allows for a better
understanding of the life of the Jews in Egypt. The documents
published in this volume shed new light on aspects discussed
previously: The Demotic papyri better explain the Jewish settlement
in Edfu, new papyri reveal more about Jewish tax, about the Acta
papyri, and about the developments of the Jewish revolt. The
magical papyri help explain cultural developments in the Jewish
community of Egypt. This volume is thus a major contribution to the
study of the decline of the greatest diaspora Jewish community in
antiquity.
The edition collects and presents all papyri and ostraca from the
Ptolemaic period, connected to Jews and Judaism, published since
1957. It is a follow-up to the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum (= CPJ)
of the 1950s and 60s, edited by Victor Tcherikover, which had
consisted of three volumes - I devoted to the Ptolemaic period; II
to the Early Roman period (until 117 CE); and III to the Late Roman
and Byzantine periods. The present book, CPJ vol. IV, is the first
in a new trilogy, and is devoted to the Ptolemaic period. The
present and upcoming volumes supplement the original CPJ. They
present over 300 papyri that have been published since 1957. They
also include papyri in languages other than Greek (Hebrew, Aramaic,
Demotic), and literary papyri which had not been included in the
old CPJ. Aside from quite a number of papyri in these categories,
the present volume (of over 100 documents) includes 21 papyri from
Herakleopolis in Middle-Egypt that record the existence of a Jewish
self-ruling body - the politeuma. These papyri put an end to a
long-standing dispute over whether such a Jewish institution had
ever existed in Egypt.
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Rabbinic Literature (Hardcover)
Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles-Macia, Ronit Nikolsky
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Rabbinic Literature (Paperback)
Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles-Macia, Ronit Nikolsky
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Ancient literature was generally written by and produced for elite
men. That fact creates specific challenges to modern interpreters
of gender roles in the ancient world, especially once contemporary
understandings of gender as construction and performance are
embraced. In Gender and Second-Temple Judaism, world-renowned
scholars take on these challenges with regard to ancient Judaism
(here including early Christianity and early rabbinic Judaism as
well), at once examining the ancient evidence and quite consciously
addressing difficult methodological questions regarding gender.
Taken together, these chapters further complicate discussions of
the construction of identity (e.g., "who is a Jew?") by inflecting
them with questions of gender construction as well. Scholars of
ancient Judaism and of gender alike will find much to grapple with
in these pages.
Ancient literature was generally written by and produced for elite
men. That fact creates specific challenges to modern interpreters
of gender roles in the ancient world, especially once contemporary
understandings of gender as construction and performance are
embraced. In Gender and Second-Temple Judaism, world-renowned
scholars take on these challenges with regard to ancient Judaism
(here including early Christianity and early rabbinic Judaism as
well), at once examining the ancient evidence and quite consciously
addressing difficult methodological questions regarding gender.
Taken together, these chapters further complicate discussions of
the construction of identity (e.g., "who is a Jew?") by inflecting
them with questions of gender construction as well. Scholars of
ancient Judaism and of gender alike will find much to grapple with
in these pages.
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