Papyrus Amherst 63

Papyrus Amherst 63
Fragment 4 of Papyrus Amherst 63 in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Discovered1896
Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
Present locationNew York and Michigan, United States

Papyrus Amherst 63 (CoS 1.99[1]) is an ancient Egyptian papyrus from the third century BC containing Aramaic texts in demotic script.[2] The 35 texts date to the eighth and seventh centuries BC.[3] One of these, a version of Psalm 20, provides an "unprecedented" extrabiblical parallel to a text from the Hebrew Bible.[4] It syncretizes abundantly, including the names Yaho and Bethel, and mentions a khnh, a word meaning priestess of Yaho.[5]

  1. ^ Steiner 1997, p. 309.
  2. ^ van der Toorn 2017, p. 633.
  3. ^ van der Toorn 2019, pp. 84–85.
  4. ^ Kister 2019, p. 426.
  5. ^ Holm, Tawny (2023-08-24). "Bethel and Yahō: A Tale of Two Gods in Egypt". Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions. 23 (1). Brill: 25–55. doi:10.1163/15692124-12341335. ISSN 1569-2116.

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