From Texts to Literature: Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible

Project Information

DEMBIB

Grant agreement ID: 101020304

DOI

10.3030/101020304

EC signature date 20 June 2021

Start date 1 January 2022

End date 30 September 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

"Appearance and Reality in Setna's Dialogue with ""Pharaoh"" in First Setna 5.31-35"

Author(s): Joseph Cross
Published in: Studies in Pragmatics, 2024, ISSN 1750-368X
Publisher: Brill

Discovering Eschatological Leadership in the Book of Isaiah. The Motif of Animal Peace between Messianic Hope and New Creation

Author(s): Sarah Schulz
Published in: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Issue 135.4, 2023, Page(s) 547-561, ISSN 1613-0103
Publisher: DeGruyter
DOI: 10.1515/zaw-2023-4002

The many Paths into the Chamber of Darkness

Author(s): Robert Kade
Published in: Die Welt des Orients, Issue 52.2, 2022, Page(s) 271-310, ISSN 0043-2547
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
DOI: 10.13109/wdor.2022.52.2.271

Thinking outside the book – Discursive Wisdom in Egyptian Demotic Instructions

Author(s): Robert Kade
Published in: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2192-2276
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Reigning like an Achaemenid. On the ideological foundations of YHWH’s rule in Isa 45

Author(s): Petra Schmidtkunz
Published in: Die Welt des Orients, Issue 54, 2024, ISSN 0043-2547
Publisher: Brill

Alexander in the Armor of Nebuchadnezzar, Alexandria in the Robes of Tyre

Author(s): Meike Röhrig
Published in: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2192-2276
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

The Style of the Opening of the Judean Novella

Author(s): Joseph Cross
Published in: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2192-2276
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

David and Inaros: Comparing Memories of Imperial Domination in the Book of Samuel and in Demotic Literature

Author(s): Stephen Germany
Published in: Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2192-2276
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Mouvance and the Art of Fiction in Performance in Manuscripts of a Demotic Egyptian Novella

Author(s): Joseph Cross
Published in: Manuscript and Text Cultures, 2023, ISSN 2752-3462
Publisher: Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures

Seshat and Lady Wisdom: Prov 8 in Light of the Demotic Book of Thoth

Author(s): Maximilian Rechholz
Published in: Vetus Testamentum, Issue 73.3, 2023, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 1568-5330
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685330-bja10134

Background and Aims of a Scroll Approach to the Formation of the Hebrew Bible

Author(s): David Carr
Published in: Advances in Ancient, Biblical and Near Eastern Research, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 9-79, ISSN 2748-6419
Publisher: University of Tübingen
DOI: 10.35068/aabner.v3i2.1035

How Exceptions Can Help Us Understand the Big Picture. Or: The Strengths of a Hybrid System

Author(s): Petra Schmidtkunz
Published in: Studies on Elephantine, 2024, ISSN 2589-2886
Publisher: Brill

The Potter, Ezekiel, and the Foreigners

Author(s): Meike Röhrig
Published in: Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 2025, ISSN 1944-2815
Publisher: online

From ex eventu to ‘real’ prophecy. Egyptian Prophetic Literature from the Persian and Hellenistic Period

Author(s): Bernd Schipper
Published in: Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 2025, ISSN 1944-2815
Publisher: online

Monographic books (1)

Israel, Egypt, and the Hebrew Bible: Studies on History and Literature from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period

Author(s): Bernd U. Schipper
Published in: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East (CHANE), 2025
Publisher: Brill

Book chapters (1)

The Corpus of Northwest Semitic Texts in Egyptian Script

Author(s): Joseph Cross
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Bible, 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Conference proceedings (1)

When the snake does not bite. How the notions of an ideal Urzeit and Endzeit belong together in texts from ancient Egypt and Judaea, and what this tells us about apocalypticism

Author(s): Petra Schmidtkunz
Published in: (Anti-)Apocalypticism throughout Antiquity, 2025
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck