In spite of renewed scholarly interest in the religion of Judeans living on the island of Elephantine during the Persian period, only one recent study has addressed the religious significance of the fired clay female figurines discovered there. The present article seeks to place these objects back on the research agenda. After summarizing the history of research, it also makes a new appraisal of the role of these objects in the religious life of Elephantine Judeans. Two factors prompt this reevaluation: first, newly found examples of the same figurine types; and second, Bob Becking’s recent research on Elephantine Aramaic texts attesting the phenomenon of “lending deities.”

尽管学术界对波斯时期居住在象岛上的犹太人的宗教有了新的兴趣，但只有最近的一项研究解决了在那里发现的陶土陶俑的宗教意义。本文旨在将这些对象放回研究议程中。在总结研究历史之后，它也重新评估了这些物体在象牙犹太人的宗教生活中的作用。重新评估的两个因素是：第一，新发现的相同雕像类型的例子；其次，鲍勃·贝克（Bob Becking）最近对Elephantine Aramaic文本的研究证明了“借贷神灵”现象。