The Brooklyn Museum Aramaic Papyri (New Documents of the Fifth Century B. C. from the Jewish Colony at Elephantine)
New Haven: Published for The Brooklyn Museum by the Yale University Press, 1953. Hardcover. 4to. xv,319,18pp. Gray mottled cloth with blue & gold cover label of "The Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences." Spine slightly sunned. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Signed by Harry M. Orlinsky, the famous Judaic and Semitic Scholar on title-page, with notes and markings by Orlinsky throughout. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs of ancient documents from the Jewish Colony at Elephantine. Edited with a historical introduction by Emil G. Kraeling. With two additional items laid in: 1) Business reply envelope to the "American Association for Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem" with Orlinsky's address label on back of envelope. 2) 8 page program of the 14th annual conference of the "AJS" which was held in Boston in 1982. Part of the program was a tribute to Orlinsky. Binding in good, interior in very good condition. g. Item #20764
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