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Prof. Bezalel Porten: Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, world leading
specialist in the field of Aramaic Documents from Elephantine
1968. Archives From Elephantine; The
Life of an Ancient Jewish Military Colony (University of California
Press; Berkeley), pp. 421 + xxii; illus.
1971. “The Restoration of Fragmentary
Aramaic Marriage Contracts” in I.D. Passow and S.T. Lachs eds., Gratz
College Anniversary Volume: On the Occasion of the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary of the Founding of the College 1895-1970 (Phila.),
243-261.
1971b. “The Aramaic Marriage Contract of
the Handmaiden Tamut” (Hebrew) in B. Uffenheimer, ed., Bible and
Jewish History: Studies in Bible and Jewish History Dedicated to the
Memory of Jacob Liver (Tel Aviv), 307-329 with 4 photographs and 2
figures.
1974. (B. Porten in collaboration with
J.C. Greenfield) Jews of Elephantine and Arameans of Syene (Fifth
Century B.C.E.): Fifty Aramaic Texts with Hebrew and English Translations
(Department of the History of the Jewish People; Jerusalem), pp. 166
+ vii.
1981. “Structure and Chiasm in Aramaic
Contracts and Letters” in J.W. Welch, ed., Chiasmus in
Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis (Hildesheim),in 169-182.
1982. (J.C. Greenfield and B. Porten) The
Bisitun Inscription of Darius the Great: Aramaic Version in Corpus
Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Part 1, vol. 5 (London), pp. 68 + x with 25
plates.
1982b. (H.Z. Szubin and B. Porten)
“‘Ancestral Estates’ in Aramaic Contracts: The Legal
Significance of the Term mh˙sn,” Journal of the
Royal Asiatic Society, 3-9.
1982c. (B. Porten and H.Z. Szubin)
“Exchange of Inherited Property at Elephantine (Cowley 1),” Journal
of the American Oriental Society 102: 651-654.
1983. (H.Z. Szubin and B. Porten),
“Litigation Concerning Abandoned Property at Elephantine (Kraeling
1),” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 42: 279-284.
1983b. “An Aramaic Oath Contract: A New
Interpretation (Cowley 45),” Revue Biblique 90: 563-575 with
1 figure and 2 plates.
1983c. (H.Z. Szubin and B. Porten)
“Testamentary Succession at Elephantine,” Bulletin of the
American Schools of Oriental Research 252: 35-46.
1985. “Two Aramaic Contracts without
Dates: New Collations (C 11, 49),” Bulletin of the American
Schools of Oriental Research 258: 41-52 with 8 figures.
1985b. (B. Porten and H.Z. Szubin),
“Hereditary Leases in Aramaic Letters,” Bibliotheca
Orientalis 42: 283-288.
1986. (B. Porten and A. Yardeni) Textbook of
Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt Newly Copied, Edited and Translated
into Hebrew and English, Vol. I: Letters (Department of the
History of the Jewish People; Jerusalem), pp. 143 + ix.
1987. (B. Porten and H.Z. Szubin),
“Litigants in the Elephantine Contracts: The Development of Legal
Terminology,” Maarav 4: 45-67.
1987b. (B. Porten and H.Z. Szubin), “A
Dowry Addendum: Kraeling 10,” Journal of the American Oriental
Society 107: 231-238.
1987c. (H.Z. Szubin and B. Porten), “Royal
Grants in Egypt: A New Interpretation of Driver 2,” Journal of
Near Eastern Studies 46: 39-48 with 2 figures.
1987d. (B. Porten and H.Z. Szubin), “An
Aramaic Deed of Bequest (Kraeling 9)” in N. Waldman, ed., Community
and Culture: Essays in Jewish Studies in Honor of the Ninetieth
Anniversary of the Founding of Gratz College (Phila.), 179-192.
1988. (H.Z. Szubin and B. Porten), “A Life
Estate of Usufruct: A New Interpretation of Kraeling 6,” Bulletin
of the American Schools of Oriental Research 269: 29-45 with 4
figures.
1989. “Fragmentary Aramaic Deeds of
Obligation and Conveyance: New Collations and Restorations,” Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 48: 161-183 with 6 figures.
1989b. “Five Fragmentary Aramaic Marriage
Documents: New Collations and Restorations,” Abr-Nahrain 7:
80-105 with 5 figures.
1989c. (B. Porten and A. Yardeni) Textbook of
Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt Newly Copied, Edited and Translated
into Hebrew and English, Vol. II: Contracts (Department of the
History of the Jewish People; Jerusalem), pp. 191 + liv with 37 foldouts.
1992. “Aramaic-Demotic Equivalents: Who is
the Borrower and Who the Lender?” in J. Johnson, ed., Life in a
Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond (Studies
in Ancient Oriental Society, vol. 51. Chicago), 259-264.
1992b. (H.Z. Szubin and B. Porten) “An
Aramaic Joint Venture Agreement: A New Interpretation of the
Bauer-Meissner Papyrus,” Bulletin of the American Schools of
Oriental Research 288: 67-84 with 1 figure = in S. Allam, ed., Grund
und Boden in Altägypten (Rechtliche und sozio-ökonomische
Verhältnisse). Akten des internationalen
Symposions Tübingen 18.-20. Juni 1990 (Tübingen, 1994), 65-95 with 4 figures.
1993. “Elephantine Aramaic Contracts and
the Priestly Literature” in M. Brettler and M. Fishbane, eds., Min˙ah
le-Na˙um: Biblical and Other Studies Presented to Nahum M.
Sarna in Honour of his 70th Birthday (JSOT Supplement Series, 154;
Sheffield), 257-271.
1993b. (B. Porten and A. Yardeni) Textbook of
Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt Newly Copied, Edited and Translated
into Hebrew and English, Vol. III: Literature, Accounts, Lists (Department
of the History of the Jewish People; Jerusalem), pp. 295 + lxvi with 36
foldouts.
1996. The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three
Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (Brill; Leiden),
pp. 621 + xvii + 11 plates.
1999. (B. Porten and A. Yardeni) Textbook of
Aramaic Documents From Ancient Egypt Newly Copied, Edited and Translated
Into Hebrew and English, Vol. IV: Ostraca and Assorted
Inscriptions (Department of the History of the Jewish People;
Jerusalem), pp. 304 + lxxiv with 9 Foldouts.
1999b. “The Status of the Jewish Woman at
Elephantine” (Hebrew) in Y. Ahituv, N. Ilan, M. Ben-Sasson, G.
Zivan, A. Sagi, eds, A Good Eye: Dialogue and Polemic in Jewish
Culture: A Jubilee Book in Honor of Tova Ilan (Jerusalem),
135-141.
2000. (in collaboration with A. Yardeni)
“The Restoration of a Dozen Elephantine Aramaic Fragments from the
Beginning of Contracts” in G. Galil and M. Weinfeld, eds., Studies
in Historical Geography and Biblical Historiography Prsented to Zecharia
Kallai (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, LXXXI. Leiden), 239-247
with 16 figures.
2001. (H.Z. Szubin and B. Porten), “The
Status of a Repudiated Spouse: A New Interpretation of Kraeling 7(TAD
B3.8),” Israel Law Review 35: 46-78.
2002. (B. Porten and J.A. Lund) Aramaic
Documents from Egypt: A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance (Eisenbrauns;
Winona Lake, IN), pp. 495 + xv.
2004-5. (B. Porten and A.Yardeni) “Two
Aramaic Salt-tax Receipts by the Scribe Joseph,” Enchoria 29:
55-59 + 2 Plates.
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