TY - BOOK ID - 3035380 TI - Studies in the Aramaic legal papyri from Elephantine AU - Muffs, Yochanan AU - Levine, Baruch A. AU - Brill PY - 2003 VL - 8 66 SN - 01699423 SN - 9004128689 9004294236 9789004128682 9789004294233 PB - Leiden ; Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri) KW - Law, Ancient KW - Jewish law KW - Droit KW - Papyrus araméens KW - Droit ancien KW - Droit juif KW - History KW - Sources KW - Histoire KW - Inscriptions, Aramaic KW - 809.221 KW - -Law KW - -Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri) KW - -Law, Ancient KW - -Jewish law KW - -Biblical law KW - Civil law (Jewish law) KW - Halacha KW - Halakha KW - Halakhah KW - Hebrew law KW - Jews KW - Law, Hebrew KW - Law, Jewish KW - Law, Mosaic KW - Law in the Bible KW - Mosaic law KW - Torah law KW - Law, Semitic KW - Commandments (Judaism) KW - Ancient law KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - Aramaic papyri KW - Manuscripts (Papyri) KW - Aramees KW - -Sources KW - -Aramees KW - 809.221 Aramees KW - -809.221 Aramees KW - Biblical law KW - Papyrus araméens KW - History&delete& KW - Jewish law - Sources UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3035380 AB - Long recognized as a brilliant cross-cultural study, Yochanan Muffs’ work analyzes the legal formulary of the Aramaic papyri from Elephantine, at the first cataract of the Nile, where a Persian garrison comprised of Jewish soldiers and their families lived throughout most of the 5th century B.C.E. These documents are of exceptional importance for the study of ancient Near Eastern law, and Muffs has investigated their formative background through extensive references to cuneiform law, by a method he calls “the Assyriological approach”. Virtually every aspect of law-sale of land, marriage and family law, loans and credit, the taking of oaths, and the granting of bequests is studied in great depth and with unusual clarity. Muffs’ work has enjoyed renewed interest in the light of more recent discoveries of Aramaic legal documents from later periods, as in the Judean Desert. ER -