Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 4

Bezalel Porten; Ada Yardeni

Published by Penn State University Press 2020

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 4

Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646021871

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About this book

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.

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.

Reviews

“The publication of these texts represents an important source of information for social and religious life in Idumea—and by analogy also for Judea—in the Persian period. The text editions should therefore not be absent from any library, because they allow a variety of possibilities for scientific analysis in the future.”
—W. Zwickel, Zeitschriften-und Bücherschau

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations and Select Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xx
Explanation of Typographic Conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Grain Equivalencies Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Terminology of Ceramic Descriptions Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvi
Numeration Legend Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
Missing Photos and Drawings Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
Texts
B1.1–4.7 Payment Orders and Instructions Dossier (54 Texts, Table 3) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
C1.1–9.9 Accounts Dossier (77 Texts, Tables C1–5) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
D1.1–9.7 Workers Texts Dossier (74 Texts, Tables D1–5) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
E1.1–5.2 Names Dossier (62 Texts, Tables E 1–5) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
F1.1–5.12 Jar Inscriptions Dossier (85 Texts, Table F 1–4) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
G1.1–5.1 Letters Dossier (23 Texts, Table G 1–4) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Comparative List of Entries Listed by ISAP Number (B–G) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	520
Comparative List of Entries Listed by TAO Number (B–G) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	522

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 570
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 377
- Coloured Images: 377
- Other: 377 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: February 4, 2020
ISBN: 9781646021871