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Examines the flourishing of Shi'i Islam during the 15th - 17th centuries with a focus on its diverse groups, movements and strands of thought that have not yet been explored

Islamic studies --- Islamic & Arabic philosophy --- Persian Empire --- Middle Eastern history

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History of ancient Greece --- History of Asia --- Xerxes I [King of the Persian Empire]

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Geschiedenis van de politieke eenwording van koninkrijken, stadstaten en stammen tot een wereldrijk in het eerste millennium voor Christus.

922.2 --- Tweestromenland --- geschiedenis - Sumerië, Babylonië, Assyrië --- Ancient history --- oudheid --- Assyria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia --- Iran --- Xerxes I [King of the Persian Empire]

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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 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.

Aramaic language --- Aramaic. --- Idumea. --- Idumean ostraca. --- Makkedah. --- Persian empire. --- accounts. --- commodity chits. --- jar inscriptions. --- land descriptions. --- letters. --- name lists. --- no text ostraca. --- payment orders. --- workers' texts.

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The Judean community at Elephantine has long fascinated historians of the Persian period. This book, with its stellar assemblage of important scholarly voices, provides substantive new insights and approaches that will advance the study of this well-known but not entirely understood community from fifth-century BCE Egypt. Since Bezalel Porten’s pioneering Archives from Elephantine, published in 1968, the discourse on the subject of the community of Elephantine during the Persian period has changed considerably, due to new data from excavations, the discovery and publication of previously unknown texts, and original scholarly insights and avenues of inquiry. Running the gamut from archaeological to linguistic investigations and encompassing legal, literary, religious, and other aspects of life in this Judean community, this volume stands at a crossroads of research that extends from Hebrew Bible studies to the history of early Jewish communities. It also features fourteen new Aramaic ostraca from Aswan. The volume will appeal to students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism, as well as to a wider audience of Egyptologists, Semitists, and specialists in ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Annalisa Azzoni, Bob Becking, Alejandro F. Botta, Lester L. Grabbe, Ingo Kottsieper, Reinhard G. Kratz, André Lemaire, Hélène Nutkowicz, Beatrice von Pilgrim, Cornelius von Pilgrim, Bezalel Porten, Ada Yardeni, and Ran Zadok. Moreover, a video recording of an interview conducted with Porten on his long career in Elephantine studies accompanies the book through a link on the Eisenbrauns website.

Aramaic language --- Jews --- History --- Achaemenid empire. --- Achaemenid period. --- Ahiqar. --- Aramaic language. --- Aramaic linguistics. --- Aramaic ostraca. --- Aramaic. --- Aswan. --- Bisitun. --- Early Judaism. --- Elephantine excavations. --- Elephantine. --- Ezra. --- Jewish Law. --- Nehemia. --- Persian empire. --- Persian period. --- Satrapy of Egypt. --- Tobit. --- Yeb.