Amherst Papyrus 63

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The Amherst 63 papyrus contains an Aramaic text that was written in Demotic script and dates from the fourth century BC. BC ( late period ). The papyrus is part of the Amherst Papyri from the collection of William Tyssen-Amherst and has been called this ever since. Most of it is now in the Morgan Library in New York . Some fragments are in the University of Michigan papyrus collection .

The Amherst 63 papyrus found in Egypt contains several individual texts of different genres and origins. It contains several religious texts, but also non-religious texts, which are clearly separated from each other. Different deities are mentioned. The deity Bethel , which is mentioned in Syria, Phenicia, but also in Egyptian texts from the Persian period, occurs particularly frequently .

Some of the texts contained may go back to precursors in the sanctuary Bethel handed down were. For biblical scholarship it is interesting that column 12: 11-19 apparently contains a poetic text related to Psalm 20. Whether the name of God Yaho is mentioned in it is controversial due to the problems of deciphering the demotic in the relevant places.

literature

  • Jan Wim Wesselius : Aramaic prayers 1. Prayers from the demotic-Aramaic papyrus Amherst 63. In: Otto Kaiser (Hrsg.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament (TUAT), Vol. 2: Religious texts . Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1991, pp. 930-935.
  • Richard C. Steiner : The Aramaic Text in Demotic Script (1.99). In: WW Hallo, K. Lawson Younger et al. a. (Ed.): The Context of Scripture 1: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World. Brill, Leiden u. a. 1997, ISBN 9004106189 , pp. 309-327.
  • Sven P. Vleeming , Jan-Wim Wesselius: Studies in Papyrus Amherst 63: Essays on the Aramaic texts in Aramaic / Demotic Papyrus Amherst 63. Vol. I, Juda Palache Instituut, Amsterdam 1985.
  • Sven P. Vleeming, Jan-Wim Wesselius: Studies in Papyrus Amherst 63: Essays on the Aramaic texts in Aramaic / Demotic Papyrus Amherst 63. Vol. II, Juda Palache Instituut, Amsterdam 1990.
  • Karel van der Toorn : Papyrus Amherst 63. Old Orient and Old Testament 448, Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2018.