Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 3

Bezalel Porten; Ada Yardeni

Published by Penn State University Press 2018

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 3

Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646020027

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About this book

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way into museums, libraries, and private collections. Four major publications covering some of these texts have appeared, three of which encompass the ostraca held by individual collectors only. This multivolume work classifies the ostraca according to subject matter and brings them together in a single publication. Volumes 1 and 2 covered fifty personal name dossiers (TAO A1-50). Volume 3 contains more than two hundred more such dossiers (TAO A51-255a) and numerous fragments. Each text is accompanied by a color photograph and hand-copy, a facing transcription and translation, and a ceramic description and commentary. The translation uniquely provides marginal captions identifying the phrases. In addition to the presentation of individual texts, there are six dossiers of tables covering all the commodity chits, parallel tables that classify them according to month or size, and comparative lists of entries.

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea is a unique source for the onomastics and the social and economic history of fourth-century Idumea and, by extension, Judah (Yehud).

Author / Editor information

Porten Bezalel :

Bezalel Porten is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University. He is the author or coauthor of ten books and more than one hundred articles.Yardeni Ada :

Ada Yardeni is the author or coauthor of more than fifty articles and books on Hebrew paleography, including The Book of Hebrew Script.

Reviews

“This series belongs in every research library, since it brings together a large collection of Aramaic texts from fourth-century BCE Idumea in a useable format, serviceable for teaching. For students of the Bible, this study falls into Bible backgrounds. Undergraduate teachers may wish to incorporate material, especially the pictures, into discussions of ancient writing media, explaining, for example, the use of sherds versus paper. Graduate teachers could read selected texts, discussing implications for society, culture, and economics.”
—Jerome Lund, Review of Biblical Literature

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Abbreviations and Select Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
Explanation of Typographic Conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxii
Grain Equivalencies Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxii
Terminology of Ceramic Descriptions Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxiii
Numeration Legend Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxiv
Tables
Four Dossiers of Wood Products Measured by Numbers (87 Entries) Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxv
Two Dossiers of Liquid Products Measured by Capacity (75 Entries) Publicly Available Download PDF	l
Texts
A51–90 Between 7 and 4 Entries (120 chits) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
A91–157 Between 4 and 2 Entries (93 chits) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
A158–255a Dossiers of Single Payer Chits (73 Chits) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
A256.1–277.1 Transferred Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
A280.1–280.11 No Payer Dossier (11 chits) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	420
A290.1.1–290.5.13 Dossiers of Illegible-Payer Chits (66 chits) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
A300.1.1–300.6.6 Dossiers of Fragmentary Chits (125 chits) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	502
Comparative List of Entries
Comparative List of Entries Listed by TAO Number (A51–A300) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	635
Comparative List of Entries Listed by ISAP Number (A51–A300) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	640
Commodity Chit Dossiers by Payer Name Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	644

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 720
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 488
- Coloured Images: 488
- Other: 488 color illustrations
Keywords: Idumean ostraca; commodity chits; payment orders; accounts; workers' texts; name lists; jar inscriptions; letters; land descriptions; no text ostraca; Persian empire; Idumea; Aramaic; Makkedah

eBook

Published: March 29, 2019
ISBN: 9781646020027