This volume contains the proceedings of two international meetings held by the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times. The papers relate to various aspects of Aramaic Epigraphy and Idumean Ostraca as well as the Arameans in the Ancient Near East.

Autorentext
is a professor of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University. is Professor for "History and Religion of Israel and its Environment" at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Leipzig, an Extraordinary Professor for Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch/South Africa, a Visiting Full Professor for Biblical Archaeology at Bar Ilan University/Israel, and a Full Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. is an associate professor of Bible and Epigraphy at the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology and the Department of Bible, Bar-Ilan University. is a researcher at the Institute for Old Testament Studies, the Faculty of Theology, of the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Inhalt
Angelika Berlejung/Aren Maeir: Introduction

I. New Perspectives on Aramaic Epigraphy in Mesopotamia, Qumran, and Egypt
Frederick Mario Fales: Aramaic Epigraphy from Assyria: New Data and Old Issues - Yuval Levavi: The Interaction Between Eanna and the Sealand in the Neo-Babylonian Period - Ran Zadok: On the Arameans and the Indigenous Population in Babylonia from the Period of the Neo-Babylonian Empire down to the End of the Sasanian Period - Daniel Machiela: The Aramaic Qumran Literature in Its Socio-Historical Setting - Tawny L. Holm: Nanay(a) Among the Arameans: New Light from Papyrus Amherst 63 - Bezalel Porten: Papyrus Amherst 63: Rumination

II. Idumean Ostraca
André Lemaire: The Fourth-Century BCE Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea: Problems and Tentative Solutions - Andrew D. Gross: Alexander of the Idumean Ostraca: Alexander III or Alexander IV? - Ran Zadok: On the Documentary Framework, Terminology, and Onomasticon of the Ostraca from Idumea