Israel in Egypt : the land of Egypt as concept and reality for Jews in antiquity and the early medieval period / edited by Alison Salvesen, Sarah Pearce, Miriam Frenkel ; with the assistance of Daniel J. Crowther.
Publisher:
Brill,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xiv, 709 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Ancient Part 1: 750-300 BCE before Alexander. Egypt in the Book of Isaiah ; Arameans and Judeans: Ethnography and Identity at Elephantine -- Ancient Part 2: 300 BCE-100 CE Qumran and LXX. Chapter 3 "Egypt" and the Dead Sea Scrolls ; Dating and Locating the Septuagint of Proverbs in Its Jewish-Hellenistic Cultural Context ; "They Did Not Settle in the Land of the Lord: Ephraim Settled in Egypt" (Hos 9:3): Returning to Egypt in the Septuagint and Other Hellenistic Jewish Works ; Hidden and Public Transcript: Jews and Non-Jews in 3 Maccabees -- Ancient Part 3: 300 BCE-100 CE Writers and Their Writings. Along the Banks of the Egyptian River: Representations of the Nile in Early Jewish Literature ; Philo of Alexandria and the Memory of Ptolemy II Philadelphus ; "Pre-eminent in Family and Wealth": Gaius Julius Alexander and the Alexandrian Jewish Community ; The Metaphor of the Plague: Apion and the Image of Egyptians and Jews under Tiberius -- Ancient Part 4: 300 BCE-100 CE Archaeology and Evidence. The Jewish Presence in Graeco-Roman Egypt: The Evidence of the Papyri since the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum ; The Jews of Apollinopolis Magna/Edfu -- a Late-First-Century CE Jewish Community in Upper Egypt Re-examined -- Ancient Part 5: 100-400 CE during and after Trajan. Jewish Egypt in the Light of the Risings under Trajan ; Alexandria in the Literary Memory of the Rabbis: The Failure of Cultural Translation and the Textual Powers of Women ; An Addendum to Bagnall and Cribiore, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt: Two Aramaic Letters from Jewish Women -- Medieval Part 1: History and Society. Introduction to the Medieval Section ; Visible Identities: In Search of Egypt's Jews in Early Islamic Egypt ; From Egypt to Palestine and Back: Links and Channels in Medieval Judaism ; Mastery, Power, and Competition: Jewish Slave Owners in Medieval Egypt -- Medieval Part 2: Language and Script. On the Graphic Cultures of the beth din: Hebrew Script in Legal Documents from Fustat in the Early Fatimid Period ; Language and Identity in the Cairo Genizah -- Medieval Part 3: In the Eyes of Poets and Travellers. The Mixed Blessings of the Western Wind: Ambiguous Longings in Ha-Levi's Alexandrian Poems of Welcome and Farewell ; An Andalusi Poet in the Land of the Pharaohs: Judah al-Ḥarīzī's Account of His Visit to the Jewish Communities of Egypt (circa 1216) -- Medieval Part 4: The Image and Concept of Egypt. The Concept of Egypt in Medieval Karaite Bible Exegesis ; Living in Egypt - a Maimonidean Predicament ; "In the Wilderness of Their Enemies" - Jewish Attitudes toward the Muslim Space in Light of a Fifteenth-Century Genizah Letter.
Summary:
"In Israel in Egypt scholars in different fields explore what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world. For generations of Jews from antiquity to the medieval period, the land of Egypt represented both a place of danger to their communal religious identity and also a haven with opportunities for prosperity and growth. A volume of collected essays from scholars in fields ranging from biblical studies and classics to papyrology and archaeology, Israel in Egypt explores what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 1871-6636 ; volume 110
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