TY - BOOK AU - Gross,Andrew D. TI - Continuity and innovation in the Aramaic legal tradition T2 - Brill eBook titles 2008 SN - 9789047442226 AV - KL190 .G76 2008 U1 - 349.56 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Keilschrift KW - swd KW - Rechtsquelle KW - Jewish law KW - Sources KW - Law KW - Egypt KW - Elephantine KW - History KW - Middle East KW - Law, Ancient KW - Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri) KW - Alter Orient KW - Aramäisch N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-226) and index; Preliminary Materials; A.D. Gross --; Chapter One. Introduction; A.D. Gross --; Chapter Two. The Acknowledgment Of Receipt Clause; A.D. Gross --; Chapter Three. The Investiture Clause; A.D. Gross --; Chapter Four. The Warranty Clause; A.D. Gross --; Chapter Five. Conclusion; A.D. Gross --; Abbreviations; A.D. Gross --; Bibliography; A.D. Gross --; Index Of Key Terms And Phrases; A.D. Gross; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Ever since the Elephantine papyri were first published over a century ago, scholars have speculated on the origins of the well-developed legal formularies used in these documents. Since then, many more Aramaic deeds of conveyance both from Elephantine and from elsewhere have been published, especially within the last decade or so. With this expanded text base now available, the time is ripe for a comprehensive re-assessment of these legal formularies. This book endeavors to show that these disparate Aramaic documents, whose chronological scope spans several centuries, form a discrete and coherent tradition. It isolates and identifies the distinctive elements that form the core of this tradition and traces the histories of these elements back through the cuneiform record UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004152847.i-234 ER -