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Author | : Philip F. Esler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191079901 |
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Babatha's Orchard tells a story that has gone untold for nearly two thousand years. It is a story that would have perished with the last person familiar with its details-the Jewish woman Babatha, daughter of Shim'on ben Menahem. Babatha was probably killed or enslaved by Roman soldiers at the end of Shim'on ben Kosiba's revolt in 135 CE, when they captured a cave in a wadi running into the western shores of the Dead Sea in which she and other Jewish fugitives had been sheltering. In 1961, a team of archaeologists discovered a cache of possessions that Babatha had carefully hidden before her life or freedom was probably taken by the Romans. Among them were thirty-five legal documents dated from 94 CE to 132 CE, written on papyrus in Aramaic and Greek, relating to Babatha and her family, and the leather pouch in which they had been kept. In this work, Philip F. Esler examines the first four documents of the archive in chronological order-Papyri Yadin 1-4, the first from 94 CE and the second, third and fourth from 99 CE, and all drafted in Nabatean Aramaic. Although from the land and time of the Bible, they reveal a tale of domestic life. It is the story of how, around December 99 CE, Shim'on, Babatha's father (but probably before she was born), unexpectedly came to acquire an irrigated date-palm orchard in his village of Maoza, on the southern shore of the Dead Sea, in the kingdom of Nabatea. Esler undertakes a close reading of P. Yadin 1-4, with occasional reference to wider contextual issues from the Dead Sea region and other parts of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author | : Philip Francis Esler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : 9780191821349 |
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This work considers the story behind papyri discovered in 1960 in the Cave of Letters by the Dead Sea. The archive contains various contracts and deeds entered into by a Jewish woman named Babatha, daughter of a land owner named Shim'on, at the end of the first century.
Author | : Ranon Katzoff |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3161577434 |
Download On Jews in the Roman World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The present volume presents a selection of studies by Ranon Katzoff on Jews in the ancient Roman world. Common to them is that they deal with Jews in liminal situations - confronted with non-Jewish, mainly Roman, laws, places, government, and modes of thought. In these studies - in which texts in Greek and Latin and rabbinic texts (all in translation) elucidate each other - Jews are shown to be rather loyal to their Jewish traditions, a controversial conclusion. The first two sections concern law. Section one searches the remains of popular Jewish culture for evidence on the degree to which rabbinic law really prevailed, through the study of Judaean Desert documents, mainly those of Babatha. Section two sifts through rabbinic law for traces of Roman law. Section three comprises studies of Jews in, to, and from the city of Rome, and section four a miscellany of studies on Jews confronted with non-Jewish life.
Author | : Kiran Desai |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780871137111 |
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Sampath Chawla, a young postal worker who never feels as though he fits into the small Indian town into which he is born, one day climbs up a tree, only to become a famous holy man
Author | : Jack Goody |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1973-12-20 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780521201698 |
Download Bridewealth and Dowry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In these insightful 1973 papers two leading authorities make a wide-ranging review of ideas and materials on bridewealth and dowry.
Author | : Richard A. Freund |
Publisher | : Humanities Press International |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Secrets of the Cave of Letters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries In Israel took place in 1960 when the legendary Yigael Yadin excavated a cave in the Dead Sea area subsequently called the "Cave of Letters." The cave contained the largest cache of ancient personal correspondence and documents ever uncovered in Israel.
Author | : Pamela Barmash |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Babylonia |
ISBN | : 0197525407 |
Download The Laws of Hammurabi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Among the best-known and most esteemed people known from antiquity is the Babylonian king Hammurabi. His fame and reputation are due to the collection of laws written under his patronage. This book offers a new interpretation of the Laws of Hammurabi. Ancient scribes would demonstrate their legal flair by composing statutes on a set of traditional cases, articulating what they deemed just and fair. The scribe of the Laws of Hammurabi advanced beyond earlier scribesin articulating legal thinking. The tradition that inspired the Laws of Hammurabi continued outside of Mesopotamia. It influenced biblical law and may have shaped Greek and Roman law.
Author | : Catherine Hezser |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783161475467 |
Download Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since Judaism has always been seen as the quintessential 'religion of the book', a high literacy rate amongst ancient Jews has usually been taken for granted. Catherine Hezser presents the first critical analysis of the various aspects of ancient Jewish literacy on the basis of all of the literary, epigraphic, and papyrological material published so far. Thereby she takes into consideration the analogies in Graeco-Roman culture and models and theories developed in the social sciences. Rather than trying to determine the exact literacy rate amongst ancient Jews, she examines the various types, social contexts, and functions of writing and the relationship between writing and oral forms of discourse. Following recent social-anthropological approaches to literacy, the guiding question is: who used what type of writing for which purpose? First Catherine Hezser examines the conditions which would enable or prevent the spread of literacy, such as education and schools, the availability and costs of writing materials, religious interest in writing and books, the existence of archives and libraries, and the question of multilingualism. Afterwards she looks at the different types of writing, such as letters, documents, miscellaneous notes, inscriptions and graffiti, and literary and magical texts until she finally draws conclusions about the ways in which the various sectors of the populace were able to participate in a literate society.
Author | : Yigael Yadin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : 9780297003458 |
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Author | : Jacobine G. Oudshoorn |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004149740 |
Download The Relationship Between Roman and Local Law in the Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using a division between substantive and formal law as the key element for understanding the applicable law in papyri, this study offers a new understanding of the distinct parts Roman and local law played in the legal reality of second-century Arabia.