Aspects of Judean Life
Elephantine in Its Persian Imperial and Administrative Context
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
Aspects of Judean Life focuses on Elephantine during the fifth century BCE, developing a comprehensive model of Achaemenid Persian imperial governance in Egypt and situating the Judean colony within that framework. It reconsiders the colony at Elephantine not as a band of foreign mercenaries living private lives but as colonial state dependents embedded within Achaemenid systems of land-for-service taxation and imperial administration. Far from isolated, the Judeans emerge as active …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781646023790 |
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| ISBN-10: | 164602379X |
| Author: | James D. Moore |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Imprint: | Eisenbrauns |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 529g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
“Aspects of Judean Life offers a powerful new perspective on the multiple levels of Persian government and scribality within that system. Building on a comprehensive overview of the relevant epigraphs from Elephantine and other parts of Egypt (including many previously unpublished and/or newly collated materials), Moore develops new insights into the Judean community at Elephantine, the character of the textual materials found there, and the distinctive aspects of Persian administration in Egypt.”
—David M. Carr, author of From Sources to Scrolls and Beyond: Essays on the Study of the Pentateuch
About The Author
James D. Moore
James D. Moore is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. He is the author of New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin and Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36.
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