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