The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine

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The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine is written by Alejandro F. Botta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0567156249 (ISBN 10) and 9780567156242 (ISBN 13).

This is a study of the interrelationships between the formulary traditions of the legal documents of the Jewish colony of Elephantine and the legal formulary traditions of their Egyptian counterparts. The legal documents of Elephantine have been approached in three different ways thus far: first, comparing them to the later Aramaic legal tradition; second, as part of a self-contained system, and more recently from the point of view of the Assyriological legal tradition. However, there is still a fourth possible approach, which has long been neglected by scholars in this field, and that is to study the Elephantine legal documents from an Egyptological perspective. In seeking the Egyptian parallels and antecedents to the Aramaic formulary, Botta hopes to balance the current scholarly perspective, based mostly upon Aramaic and Assyriological comparative studies.