Reinhard Gregor Kratz (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1957; Studium der Gräzistik und Ev. Theologie in Frankfurt a.M., Heidelberg und Zürich; Promotion und Habilitation in Zürich; Professor für Altes Testament in Göttingen.Bernd U. Schipper (Herausgegeben von) Born 1968; 1999 Dr. theol. at the University of Bonn; 2004 Dr. phil. (Egyptology) at the University of Hamburg; since 2010 Professor for Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt-University of Berlin.

• Reinhard G. Kratz/Bernd U. Schipper: Introduction1. Society and AdministrationGulia Francesca Grassi: "Do We Know the Arameans?" (SAA 17,176). The Use of Ethnonyms in the Aramaic Documents from Egypt - Holger Gzella: The Scribal Habit of Achaemenid Administrators, Its Educational Underpinnings, and Its Reception in the Hebrew Bible - Alexander Schütze: The Legal Context of the Aramaic Legal Tradition on Elephantine Reconsidered - Sylvie Honigman: Serving the Kings, Building Temples, and Paying the "Jewish Tax". Aramaic-Speaking Judeans and Their Descendants in Upper Egypt from Persian to Early Imperial Times2. ReligionAlexandra von Lieven: Spätägyptische Religion in und um Elephantine - Collin Cornell/Brent A. Strawn: Is Judean Religion at Elephantine a Pidgin? Reassessing Its Relationship to Its Antecedents and Congeners - Bob Becking: "That Evil Act". A Thick Description of the Crisis around the Demolition of the Temple of Yahô at Elephantine - Bernd U. Schipper: The Judeans/Arameans of Elephantine and Their Religion. An Egyptological Perspective3. LiteratureJames D. Moore: "Ahikariana" at Elephantine. New Readings of Berlin P. 13446 and Developments in Ahiqar Research - Joachim Friedrich Quack: Die demotischen Fragmente der Erzählung und der Sprüche des Achiqar - Reinhard G. Kratz: Aḥiqar and Bisitun. The Literature of the Judeans at Elephantine - Tawny L. Holm: Papyrus Amherst 63 and the Arameans of Egypt. A Landscape of Cultural Nostalgia - Karel van der Toorn: The Background of the Elephantine Jews in Light of Papyrus Amherst 63