Advances in Elephantine and Persian Period Research

These eight contributions are an outgrowth of the proceedings from a workshop which was held at the Humboldt University in Berlin in October 2021 and was convened to review James D. Moore's New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin (Brill, Studies on Elephantine, 2022). The contributions include responses to Moore's readings (Porten and Schmidtkunz) and an invaluable expansion on his archaeological discussion (Schuetze), one contribution on Aramaic linguistics (Rudolf), two articles presenting English editions and radio carbon dating results for Persian period Aramaic papyri from Elephantine and Phoenician papyri from Saqqara (Gorea and Moore), a survey of all known Demotic sources from Persian period Elephantine (Moje), and a social historical note arguing that Elephantine/Syene was a site of castor oil production.