A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh interpretation of tad A4.7/8; and to reread other key textual data for information about statuary.
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Ernst Axel Knauf, “Elephantine und das vor-biblische Judentum,” in Religion und Religionskontakte im Zeitalter der Achämeniden, ed. Reinhard G. Kratz, vwgt 22 (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2002), 179-88, here 181. In secondary literature, the island is more commonly called “Elephantine,” from Greek ἐλέφας, meaning “elephant.” I have chosen to use the place name “Yeb” because it hews closer to the designation used in the Aramaic archives, i.e., yb (reflecting Egyptian ’ibw, also meaning “elephant”). Cf. Reinhard G. Kratz, “The Second Temple of Jeb and of Jerusalem,” in Judah and the Judeans of the Persian Period, ed. Oded Lipschits and Manfred Oeming (Winona Lake, in: Eisenbrauns, 2006), 247-64.
Reinhard G. Kratz, “Elephantine und Alexandria: nicht-biblisches und biblisches Judentum in Ägypten,” in Alexandria, ed. Tobias Georges et al., comes 1 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013), 103-208, here 194. See also Becking, “Gottheiten,” 208.
Rohrmoser, Götter, 191. “[D]ie doppelte Nennung von ‘was auch immer dort war’ in der Aufzählung der Verluste in tad A.4.7, 11f. schließt eines oder mehrere Standbilder im Tempel mit ein” (My translation).
Hanspeter Schaudig, “Death of Statues and Rebirth of Gods,” in Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond, ed. Natalie Naomi May, ois 8 (Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2012), 127 and passim.
See especially Jacob L. Wright, “The Deportation of Jerusalem’s Wealth and the Demise of Native Sovereignty in the Book of Kings,” in Interpreting Exile: Displacement and Deportation in Ancient and Modern Contexts, ed. Brad E. Kelle et al., Ancient Israel and its Literature 10 (Atlanta: sbl, 2011), 105-30.
Porten, Archives, 164. See also Lester L. Grabbe, “Elephantine and the Torah,” in In the Shadow of Bezalel: Aramaic, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Bezalel Porten, ed. Alejandro F. Botta, chane 60 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 125-35, here 128.
Ibid., 285. ḥrm on this reading is adjectival, modifying bytʾl. On this possibility, see Becking, “Gottheiten,” 220.
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A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions. Its primary contributions are: to address the Yeb evidence, even preliminarily, to the debate over Yhwh statuary in the Jerusalem temple; to make a fresh interpretation of tad A4.7/8; and to reread other key textual data for information about statuary.
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