{"product_id":"israel-in-egypt-the-land-of-egypt-as-concept-and-reality-for-jews-in-antiquity-and-the-early-medieval-period-9789004435391","title":"Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Israel in Egypt scholars in different fields explore what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world. For generations of Jews from antiquity to the medieval period, the land of Egypt represented both a place of danger to their communal religious identity and also a haven with opportunities for prosperity and growth. A volume of collected essays from scholars in fields ranging from biblical studies and classics to papyrology and archaeology, Israel in Egypt explores what can be known of the experiences of the many and varied Jewish communities in Egypt, from biblical sources to the medieval world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    Ancient Part 1: 750–300 BCE before Alexander  1 Egypt in the Book of Isaiah   Hugh G. M. Williamson    2 Arameans and Judaeans: Ethnography and Identity at Elephantine   Reinhard G. Kratz    Ancient Part 2: 300 BCE–100 CE Qumran and LXX  3 “Egypt” and the Dead Sea Scrolls   Dorothy M. Peters    4 Dating and Locating the Septuagint of Proverbs in Its Jewish-Hellenistic Cultural Context   Lorenzo G. A. Cuppi    5 “They Did Not Settle in the Land of the Lord: Ephraim Settled in Egypt” (Hos 9:3): Returning to Egypt in the Septuagint and Other Hellenistic Jewish Works   Alison Salvesen    6 Hidden and Public Transcript: Jews and Non-Jews in 3 Maccabees   Noah Hacham    Ancient Part 3: 300 BCE–100 CE Writers and Their Writings  7 Along the Banks of the Egyptian River: Representations of the Nile in Early Jewish Literature   Nathalie LaCoste    8 Philo of Alexandria and the Memory of Ptolemy II Philadelphus   Sarah Pearce    9 “Pre-eminent in Family and Wealth”: Gaius Julius Alexander and the Alexandrian Jewish Community   Gregory E. Sterling    10 The Metaphor of the Plague: Apion and the Image of Egyptians and Jews under Tiberius   Livia Capponi    Ancient Part 4: 300 BCE–100 CE Archaeology and Evidence  11 The Jewish Presence in Greco-Roman Egypt: The Evidence of the Papyri since the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum   Willy Clarysse    12 The Jews of Apollinopolis Magna\/Edfu — a Late-First-Century CE Jewish Community in Upper Egypt Re-examined   Margaret Williams    Ancient Part 5: 100–400 CE after Trajan  13 Jewish Egypt in the Light of the Risings under Trajan   William Horbury    14 Alexandria in the Literary Memory of the Rabbis: The Failure of Cultural Translation and the Textual Powers of Women   Galit Hasan-Rokem    15 An Addendum to Bagnall and Cribiore, Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt: Two Aramaic Letters from Jewish Women   Tal Ilan    Medieval Part 1: History and Society  Introduction to the Medieval Section   Mark Cohen    16 Visible Identities: In Search of Egypt’s Jews in Early Islamic Egypt   Petra Sijpesteijn    17 From Egypt to Palestine and Back: Links and Channels in Medieval Judaism   Miriam Frenkel    18 Mastery, Power, and Competition: Jewish Slave Owners in Medieval Egypt   Craig Perry    Medieval Part 2: Language and Script  19 On the Graphic Cultures of the beth din: Hebrew Script in Legal Documents from Fustat in the Early Fatimid Period   Judith Olszowy-Schlanger    20 Language and Identity in the Cairo Genizah   Esther-Miriam Wagner    Medieval Part 3: In the Eyes of Poets and Travellers  21 The Mixed Blessings of the Western Wind: Ambiguous Longings in Ha-Levi’s Alexandrian Poems of Welcome and Farewell   Yehoshua Granat    22 An Andalusian Poet in the Land of the Pharaohs: Judah al-Ḥarīzī’s Account of His Visit to the Jewish Communities of Egypt (circa 1216)   Paul B. Fenton    Medieval Part 4: The Image and Concept of Egypt  23 The Concept of Egypt in Medieval Karaite Bible Exegesis   Marzena Zawanowska    24 Living in Egypt — a Maimonidean Predicament   Joanna Weinberg    25 “In the Wilderness of Their Enemies” — Jewish Attitudes toward the Muslim Space in Light of a Fifteenth-Century Genizah Letter   Dotan Arad    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210804486487,"sku":"9789004435391","price":173.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/israel-in-egypt-the-land-of-egypt-as-concept-and-reality-for-jews-in-antiquity-and-the-early-medieval-period-9789004435391","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}