---
title: 'The Papyrus of Elephantine'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Dick Wilson'
date: 1914-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Hermeneutics'
- 'Archaeology'
- 'Biblical History'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 1'
- 'Daniel 3'
- 'Ezra 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/wilson-1914-the-papyrus-of-elephantine
---

# The Papyrus of Elephantine

Homiletic treatment of Genesis, stressing its pictorial creation account and divine purpose. Review of the Elephantine Aramaic papyri revealing Persian administration and a Jewish colony.

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