Ziemba / Poulsen: Introduction: Judeans in the Land of the Nile

Part I: Egypt under Persian rule

Colburn: What Have the Persians Ever Done for Us? The Study of Achaemenid Imperialism in Egypt

Wasmuth: Persian Period Elephantine/Syene in Context: The Natural, Pharaonic Socio-Cultural, and Persian Period Urban Environment       

Part II: Elephantine and Papyrus Amherst

Moore: A Supposed Diaspora Community at Elephantine or How the Persians Reinvented Judean-ness  

Ziemba: Elusive Soldiers: The Military Nature of the ‘Judean Troop’ at Persian-period Elephantine

Holm: “I Come from Judah, My Brother Has Been Brought from Samaria” (Aramaic P. Amherst 63): The Judean and Samarian Arrival in Egypt

Hjelm: What Can Elephantine Teach Us about Ancient Samari(t)ans

Granerød: “What Indeed Has Papyrus Amherst 63 To Do with Elephantine?” The Amherst Papyrus’s Relevance to the Question of the Elephantine Judean Community’s Historical Background and Identity    

Part III: Representations of Egypt in the Hebrew Bible

Poulsen: Defining Diaspora in the Joseph Story

Youssef: Isaiah 19 and the Persian Period

Liebermann: Jeremiah and YHWH in Egypt: Divine Presence, Prophetic Pain, and the Presentation of History

Fry: A Quest for This Historical “Queen of Heaven”: Connecting the Biblical and Non-Biblical in and through Diaspora

List of Contributors

Index