New Perspectives on Aramaic Epigraphy in Mesopotamia, Qumran, Egypt and Idumea

This volume contains the proceedings of two international meetings held by the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB) in Ramat-Gan/Jerusalem (March 2017) and Leipzig (May 2018). Most of the papers relate to various aspects of the Aramaic epigraphy in different contexts with a second part of the volume dealing with Idumean ostraca. The papers will be of interest to ancient historians, archaeologists of the ancient Near East, scholars of Semitic and Biblical studies and the ancient Near East.Angelika Berlejung/Aren Maeir: Introduction

I. New Perspectives on Aramaic Epigraphy in Mesopotamia, Qumran, and Egypt
Frederick Mario Fales: Aramaic Epigraphy from Assyria: New Data and Old Issues - Yuval Levavi: The Interaction Between Eanna and the Sealand in the Neo-Babylonian Period - Ran Zadok: On the Arameans and the Indigenous Population in Babylonia from the Period of the Neo-Babylonian Empire down to the End of the Sasanian Period - Daniel Machiela: The Aramaic Qumran Literature in Its Socio-Historical Setting - Tawny L. Holm: Nanay(a) Among the Arameans: New Light from Papyrus Amherst 63 - Bezalel Porten: Papyrus Amherst 63: Rumination

II. Idumean Ostraca
André Lemaire: The Fourth-Century BCE Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea: Problems and Tentative Solutions - Andrew D. Gross: Alexander of the Idumean Ostraca: Alexander III or Alexander IV? - Ran Zadok: On the Documentary Framework, Terminology, and Onomasticon of the Ostraca from Idumea