❧ विवरण
Elephantine papyri Aramaic में legal, administrative और religious documents का एक corpus है, जो island Elephantine (Yeb) पर discovered, Upper Egypt में, Nubian frontier के पास। ये emanate से Achaemenid Persians की service में एक Jewish military garrison के, V और IV centuries BCE में। ये archives — marriage contracts, property deeds, official correspondence — offer एक unique testimony एक pre-Rabbinic Jewish community को diaspora में रहते हुए अपने own religious practices के साथ। सबसे famous document है Judea के governor Bagoas (c. 407 BCE) को addressed letter को requesting permission करने को reconstruct करने को उनके temple को Yahou का (YHWH), destroyed के द्वारा Egyptian priests को god Khnoum के। Jerusalem के outside एक Jewish temple का existence, animal sacrifices के साथ, और mentions संभावित divine consort (Anat-Yahou) की, revolutionized period के Judaism की समझ को।
✦ English
The Elephantine Papyri are Aramaic legal, administrative and religious documents from a Jewish military garrison on Elephantine island in Upper Egypt, serving the Persian Achaemenid empire. They provide unique testimony about a pre-rabbinic Jewish community with its own temple and religious practices that challenged conventional understanding of early Judaism.
