| Papyrus Amherst 63 | |
|---|---|
 Fragment 4 of Papyrus Amherst 63 in the Pierpont Morgan Library | |
| Discovered | 1896 Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt |
| Present location | New 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]
- ^ Steiner 1997, p. 309.
- ^ van der Toorn 2017, p. 633.
- ^ van der Toorn 2019, pp. 84–85.
- ^ Kister 2019, p. 426.
- ^ Holm 2023.