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265 SOME REMARKS ON THE ARAMAIC LETTERS FROM HERMOPOLIS The recently published Aramaic letters from Hermopolis (E. BRESCIANI e M. KAMIL, Le lettere aramaiche di Hermopoli, atti della accademia nazionale dei lincei, anno 1966, memorie classe di science morali, storiche e filologiche. Serie VIII - Volume XII, Fascicolo 5 (pp. 358-428 + 10 plates), Roma, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1966) have for a long time been anticipated with tense expectation by Semitists and Old Testament scholars. It must accordingly be greeted with satisfaction that they eventually can be studied on basis of this careful publication with introduction and notes. In the fol- lowing I shall make a short mention of some of the problems connected with these letters. The letters were found in February 1945 in Tuna el Gebel (Her- mopolis West) in the Ibis temple (dedicated to Thot) during some excavations under the leadership of SAMI GABRA. The outward circumstances of the discovery give no basis for the dating. This has to be fixed from the letters and the essential support is the pa- laeography which points to the fifth century B.C. The basis of comparison is first and foremost the Aramaic papyri and ostraca from Elephantine and
Vetus Testamentum – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1968
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