The Aramaic papyri found on the island of Elephantine, Egypt (ancient Yeb, opposite Syene) come from the fifth century BC. They include letters, personal archives, public archives, the 'Words of Ahikar,' the Behistun inscription, accounts, and lists. Cowley provides here the Aramaic transcriptions and English translations for all the texts available to him. In this edition, an updated bibliography is provided.

Author - A. E. Cowley

"Some hundred years after the discovery of the first Aramaic papyri almost all the published pieces were brought together in a small volume by one of the main contributors to the decipherment and publication of these texts, A. E. Cowley. For thirty years, until publication of the Brooklyn Museum Aramaic papyri the name of Cowley was virtually synonymous with Aramaic papyri."
–Bezalel Porten
author of Archives of Elephantine

Babylonian Epics, Hymns, Omens, and Other Texts by Albert T. Clay
The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis by R. H. Charles
Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Second Edition
Documents from Old Testament Times
The Four Gospels in Syriac
Early Babylonian Letters from Larsa by Henry F. Lutz
The Babylonian Laws by G. R. Driver, John C. Miles
The Apologies of Justin Martyr
The Code of Hammurabi by Robert Francis Harper
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs by R. H. Charles
Early Babylonian History by Hugo Radau
Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C. by A. E. Cowley
The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew, and Thomas by Bernhard Pick
The Apocryphal Gospels by B. Harris Cowper
The Apocalypse of Adam by Charles W. Hedrick
The Book of Tobit by Adolf Neubauer
The Ethiopic Text of 1 Enoch
Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century B.C. by G. R. Driver
Psalms of the Pharisees, Commonly Called the Psalms of Solomon by Herbert E. Ryle, Montague Rhodes James
The Annals of Sennacherib by Daniel David Luckenbill
The Apocalypse of Baruch
The Book of Enoch by R. H. Charles
The Gospel of Peter by Henry Barclay Swete