This book deals with the manuscripts from the Wadi Daliyeh (Samaria Papyri) written in Aramaic in the fourth century B.C.E. in the city of Samaria, in the last decades of the Persian period. The book contains a complete edition of the Wadi Daliyeh manuscripts, their new historical interpretation, and an analysis of their legal aspects. The historical interpretation sheds new light on the history of Samaria and its institutions in the Persian period, as well as on the history of the Persian province of Judaea. This book is particulary useful for historians of Palestine in the Second Temple period, for biblical scholars, and for scholars dealing with Near Eastern legal texts.
Jan DuÅ¡ek, Ph.D. (2005) in History and Archaeology of Ancient Worlds, Ãcole Pratique des Hautes Ãtudes, Paris, works as a researcher in the Centre for Biblical Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Charles University in Prague.
"... Diese allgemeinen Erwägungen sollen indes die groÃen Verdienste, die Verf. sich mit seiner Detailarbeit für die Geschichte Samariens in persischer Zeit erworben hat, keineswegs schmälern. Er hat ein wichtiges Standardwerk geschaffen." - Holger GZELLA, Universität Leiden, August 2012
All those interesed in the Old Testament, the history of Palestine and the ancient Near East, Hebrew and Aramaic philology and epigraphy, theology, papyrology, and history of law.