The Aramaic Copy of the Bisitun Inscription Revisited: A Narrative of the Rise of Darius from Elephantine
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https://doi.org/10.1344/AFAM2024.14.6Keywords:
Bisitun inscription , Darius I , Cambises I , Elefantina, JudaismAbstract
This article proposes a translation into Catalan of the Aramaic version of the Bisitun Inscription and analyzes its importance and history. This version, which is counted among the Aramaic papyri of Elephantine, dated to the Achaemenid period of Egypt, and in the context of that Jewish community on the Nile, will allow us to access a set of very valuable information about the pre-exilic and pre-biblical Judaism. We will be able to analyse a Jewish community in Egypt through its philological, cultural and religious reality and understand the way in which they understood their role within the new Achaemenid scheme created from the death of Cambyses and the tumultuous rise of Darius I.
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