maybe of interest:
Justice at the House of Yhw(h): An Early Yahwistic Defixio in Furem
by Gad Barnea
Religions 2023, 14(10), 1324; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14101324
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/10/1324
An Elephantine text reinterpreted
Re: Reinterpreted
Oh Dear.
Alas and alack, the Angry Alias will not be allayed -- Biblical Jews were the aberration!
Somewhere in Egypt, an 'Egyptian' declares:
Meanwhile, in actual synagogues of Israel:
When compared to the image of Yahwism reflected in the biblical text, however, this Egyptian community might appear to be its alter ego — a parallel, seemingly heretical universe. This is misleading. As Kratz rightly noted, “The Egyptian Jews probably had much more in common with the historical Israel of the pre- and post-exilic age in Palestine than do the biblical Jews. The Bible is the exception, not Elephantine”. (Kratz 2006, p. 248, emphasis added). Indeed, the undeniable existence of polytheistic and syncretistic4 expressions within a community with clear Jewish-like traits has raised the question of whether or not it can objectively be tagged as such. This topic has been hotly debated and caused discernable discomfort among scholars ever since the texts from the Elephantine archive were first published in 1903 (e.g., Epstein 1912). The texts produced by this community continue to generate new insight into Yahwism in the Achaemenid period (Barnea and Kratz, forthcoming).
Alas and alack, the Angry Alias will not be allayed -- Biblical Jews were the aberration!
Somewhere in Egypt, an 'Egyptian' declares:
Meanwhile, in actual synagogues of Israel: