Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period

Alison Salvesen (DPhil Oxford 1988) is Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, and Polonsky Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Her main research interests lie in early biblical translation and interpretation.Sarah Pearce (DPhil Oxford 1995) is Ian Karten Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Southampton. Her research interests lie in the history and literature of Jews in the Graeco-Roman world, with a particular focus on the works of Philo of Alexandria.Miriam Frenkel (PhD Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2001) is Professor of Jewish history at the University of Jerusalem. Her main research interests lie in Jewish medieval history and culture in the lands of Islam and in Geniza studies.

• IntroductionAncient Part 1: 750–300 BCE before Alexander1 Egypt in the Book of IsaiahHugh G. M. Williamson2 Arameans and Judaeans: Ethnography and Identity at ElephantineReinhard G. KratzAncient Part 2: 300 BCE–100 CE Qumran and LXX3 “Egypt” and the Dead Sea ScrollsDorothy M. Peters4 Dating and Locating the Septuagint of Proverbs in Its Jewish-Hellenistic Cultural ContextLorenzo G. A. Cuppi5 “They Did Not Settle in the Land of the Lord: Ephraim Settled in Egypt” (Hos 9:3): Returning to Egypt in the Septuagint and Other Hellenistic Jewish WorksAlison Salvesen6 Hidden and Public Transcript: Jews and Non-Jews in 3 MaccabeesNoah HachamAncient Part 3: 300 BCE–100 CE Writers and Their Writings7 Along the Banks of the Egyptian River: Representations of the Nile in Early Jewish LiteratureNathalie LaCoste8 Philo of Alexandria and the Memory of Ptolemy II PhiladelphusSarah Pearce9 “Pre-eminent in Family and Wealth”: Gaius Julius Alexander and the Alexandrian Jewish CommunityGregory E. Sterling10 The Metaphor of the Plague: Apion and the Image of Egyptians and Jews under TiberiusLivia CapponiAncient Part 4: 300 BCE–100 CE Archaeology and Evidence11 The Jewish Presence in Greco-Roman Egypt: The Evidence of the Papyri since the Corpus Papyrorum JudaicarumWilly Clarysse12 The Jews of Apollinopolis Magna/Edfu — a Late-First-Century CE Jewish Community in Upper Egypt Re-examinedMargaret WilliamsAncient Part 5: 100–400 CE after Trajan13 Jewish Egypt in the Light of the Risings under TrajanWilliam Horbury14 Alexandria in the Literary Memory of the Rabbis: The Failure of Cultural Translation and the Textual Powers of WomenGalit Hasan-Rokem15 An Addendum to Bagnall and Cribiore, Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt: Two Aramaic Letters from Jewish WomenTal IlanMedieval Part 1: History and SocietyIntroduction to the Medieval SectionMark Cohen16 Visible Identities: In Search of Egypt’s Jews in Early Islamic EgyptPetra Sijpesteijn17 From Egypt to Palestine and Back: Links and Channels in Medieval JudaismMiriam Frenkel18 Mastery, Power, and Competition: Jewish Slave Owners in Medieval EgyptCraig PerryMedieval Part 2: Language and Script19 On the Graphic Cultures of the beth din: Hebrew Script in Legal Documents from Fustat in the Early Fatimid PeriodJudith Olszowy-Schlanger20 Language and Identity in the Cairo GenizahEsther-Miriam WagnerMedieval Part 3: In the Eyes of Poets and Travellers21 The Mixed Blessings of the Western Wind: Ambiguous Longings in Ha-Levi’s Alexandrian Poems of Welcome and FarewellYehoshua Granat22 An Andalusian Poet in the Land of the Pharaohs: Judah al-Ḥarīzī’s Account of His Visit to the Jewish Communities of Egypt (circa 1216)Paul B. FentonMedieval Part 4: The Image and Concept of Egypt23 The Concept of Egypt in Medieval Karaite Bible ExegesisMarzena Zawanowska24 Living in Egypt — a Maimonidean PredicamentJoanna Weinberg25 “In the Wilderness of Their Enemies” — Jewish Attitudes toward the Muslim Space in Light of a Fifteenth-Century Genizah LetterDotan AradIndex