RT Article
T1 AIBL-CIS de Ricci no. 2: A New Jewish and Aramaic Religious Text from Egypt Dating between the Early 2nd and Early 4th Centuries CE
JF Dead Sea discoveries
VO 30
IS 2
SP 129
OP 151
A1 Moore, James D.
A1 Gorea, Maria 1967-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1852442891
AB This article presents a previously unknown Jewish and Aramaic religious literary composition dating between the early second and early fourth centuries CE. The document focuses on a righteous man within the context of angels, demons, and spirits. The manuscript, which is housed in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Cabinet du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, has a clear acquisition history and comes from Egypt. The text is edited, translated, and provided with a philological commentary. Discussion of the text’s content is briefly brought into dialogue with the Dead Sea Scrolls and early Jewish texts.
K1 religious text
K1 Egypt
K1 Roman Period
K1 Aramaic
K1 Jewish script
K1 Dead Sea Scrolls
DO 10.1163/15685179-bja10039