This book presents an up-to-date translation of  seventy-nine letters and fragments, virtually the complete corpus of  surviving letters in Aramaic and Hebrew down to the time of Alexander,  omitting only the most fragmentary and the most formulaic. This  includes the correspondence from ancient Jewish writers at Yavneh-Yam  (7th Century), Arad and Lachish (6th), and Elephantine (5th). There  are also administrative letters from Persian bureaucrats, private  commercial and family correspondence from Egypt, and other scattered  letters from Assyria, Egypt, Philistia, and Idumaea. Also included are  short notes in Edomite, Ammonite, and Phoenician (one in each  language). The revised edition is supplemented by an additional nine  texts, some of them published very recently, not found in the 1994  edition. Translations are now provided with line numbers, and some  have been improved in the light of recent studies. Each letter appears  alongside the original text in square script. Brief introductions  set each group of letters into its historical and social context. The  arrangement within each language group is roughly chronological.

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