Statement

During the nineteenth century a set of documents surfaced that revealed a Judahite (or Jewish?) community of the fifth century BCE in an unlikely spot: Elephantine, a small island in the middle of the Nile in what is now southern Egypt.

Ancient witnesses mentioned by the sourcePapiros de Elefantina

References

1. p. 33

   supports · main text · ch. 2

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 519

   supports · timeline

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Section: Timeline of Jewish History

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