Reprint of a collection of articles first published in 1947. Contents: Notice on the Aramaic Papyri discovered at Hermopolis West ( Murad Kamil ); Nathanael ben al-Fayyumi et la theologie ismaelienne ( Salomon Pines ); A Yemenite poet on Egypt of the XVIth century ( S. D. Goitein ); Palestine at the time of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt ( B. Maisler ); Edom, d'apres les sources egyptiennes ( B. Grdseloff ); On the interpretation of a Jewish inscription from Alexandria ( M. Schwabe ); On Egyptian ideas and names in Canaan and the Bible (H. Torczyner ); The Jews in Egypt in the Hellenistic-Roman age in the light of the Papyri ( V. Tcherikover ); The high place at Gibeon (S. Yeivin ).