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𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞

The Elephantine Papyri: One of the Most Ancient Collections of Jewish Manuscripts

Circa 450 BCE

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"A letter from the Elephantine Papyri, a collection of 5th century BCE writings of the Jewish community at Elephantine in Egypt. Authors are Yedoniah and his colleagues the priests and it is addressed to Bagoas, governor of Judah. The letter is a request for the rebuilding of a Jewish temple at Elephantine, which had been destroyed by Egyptian pagans. The letter is dated year 17 of king Darius (II) under the rule of the satrap of Egypt, Arsames, which corresponds to 407 BCE."

 

One of the oldest collections of Jewish manuscripts, dating from the fifth century BCE, the Elephantine papyri were written by the Jewish community at Elephantine (Arabic: جزيرة الفنتين‎, Greek: Ελεφαντίνη) , then called Yeb, an island in the Nile at the border of NubiaOffsite Link. The Jewish settlement of Elephantine was probably founded as a military installation about 650 BCE, during the reign of Manasseh of Judah, to assist Pharoah Psammetichus IOffsite Link in his Nubian campaign. The dry soil of Upper Egypt preserved documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene . Hundreds of these Elephantine papyri survived, written in hieraticOffsite Link and DemoticOffsite Link Egyptian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin and Coptic, and consisting of legal documents and letters, spanning a period of 1000 years. 

"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙥𝙮𝙧𝙞 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨: "𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙜𝙮𝙥𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙀𝙜𝙮𝙥𝙩 𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙜𝙮𝙥𝙩, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙜𝙮𝙥𝙩, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙔𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙙𝙨. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝘽𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙝𝙞 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙞𝙢: 𝙇𝙚𝙩 𝙪𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙨𝙤 𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙪𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙜𝙮𝙥𝙩. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝘽𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙝𝙞 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙆𝙖𝙞𝙥𝙝𝙞 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙖𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙔𝙖𝙝𝙤."

"Though some fragments on papyrusOffsite Link are much older, the largest number of papyri are written in AramaicOffsite Link, the lingua franca of the Persian Empire, and document the Jewish community among soldiers stationed at Elephantine under Persian rule, 495-399 BCE. The Elephantine documents include letters and legal contracts from family and other archives: divorce documents, the manumission of slaves, and other business, and are a valuable source of knowledge about law, society, religion, language and onomasticsOffsite Link, the sometimes surprisingly revealing study of names...." (Wikipedia article on Elephantine papyri, accessed 12-09-2013).

Porten, Bezalel et al, The Elephantine Papyri in English. Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity