Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt
Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, often referred to as TAD or TADAE, is a four volume corpus of Aramaic inscriptions written in Egypt during the Ancient Egyptian period, written by Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni.
Originally envisaged to be the Corpus Papyrorum Aramaicarum, following the Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, it grew to incorporate all Aramaic inscriptions from the region, not just on papyrus, so the title was changed – this time borrowing from J. C. L. Gibson's 1971 Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions.
Each of volumes 1-3 contains 40-50 texts ; vol. 2 contracts ; vol. 3 literary texts ), and volume 4 contains 478 texts, including D1-5: 216 papyrus fragments; D6: 14 leather; D7-10: 87 ostraca. The collection does not include the Saqqarah papyri and most of the Clermont-Ganneau ostraca.
It is the standard reference textbook for the Aramaic Elephantine papyri and ostraca, as well as other examples of Egyptian Aramaic, which together provide the primary extant examples of Imperial Aramaic worldwide.
Reviews
Volume 1
- Williamson, H. G. M.. . Vetus Testamentum, 37, 493–493. https://doi.org/10.2307/1517566
- Lipiński, E.. . Orientalia, 57, 434–436. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43077597
- Kaufman, S. A.. . Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 47, 289–290. http://www.jstor.org/stable/544888
- Grelot, P.. . Revue Biblique, 95, 294–299. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44088910
Volume 2
- Lipiński, E.. . Orientalia, 59, 552–554. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43075793
- Grelot, P.. . Revue Biblique, 97, 270–276. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44089014
- Segal, J. B.. . The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 78, 344–344. https://doi.org/10.2307/3822102
Volume 3
- Fitzmyer, Joseph A.. . Journal of the American Oriental Society, 115, 710–711. https://doi.org/10.2307/604758
- Grelot, P.. . Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period, 27, 351–355. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24660077
Volume 4
- Gianto, A.. . Biblica, 81, 443–445. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42614297
- Dion, P.-E.. . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 318, 77–79. https://doi.org/10.2307/1357731
Work
Previous corpuses
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- Sayce and Cowley,,
- Arthur Ungnad, 1911,
- Eduard Sachau, 1911, Aramäische Papyrus und Ostraka aus einer jüdischen Militär-Kolonie zu Elephantine
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- Arthur Ernest Cowley, 1923,
- Noël Aimé-Giron, 1931,