Law in the documents of the Judaean desert / edited by Ranon Katzoff & David Schaps.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katzoff, Ranon.

Schaps, David M.

Series:

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 96.

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish law--History--To 1500--Sources--Congresses.

Jewish law.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D--Sources--Congresses.

Judaism.

Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--Dead Sea Region (Israel and Jordan)--History--To 1500--Sources--Congresses.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The discovery in the Judaean desert between 1951 and 1961 of documentary papyri from the period of the Bar-Kochba Revolt in the early second century opened for the first time a window on the lives of Jewish lay people on the periphery of Judaea in a critical period of history. By the year 2000 these texts were published in full. Of particular interest was the light they shed on the interplay of Jewish, Greek and Roman law in the Roman provinces of Judaea and Arabia. In the current volume leading scholars from Europe, America and Israel debate the major questions raised by these texts and offer new insights into the material and its implications.

Contents:

Introduction / Ranon Katzoff and David Schaps

What is Hellenistic law? The documents of the Judean desert in the light of the papyri from Egypt / Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski

Roman officials in Judaea and Arabia and civil jurisdiction / Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck

Four Murabbaat papyri and the alleged capture of Jerusalem by Bar Kokhba / Hanan Eshel, Magen Broshi and Timothy A. J. Jull

Marriage payments and succession strategies in the documents from the Judaean desert / Michael L. Satlow

Judaean desert marriage documents and ekdosis in the Greek law of the Roman period / Uri Yiftach-Firanko

The widow Babatha and the poor orphan boy / Ann Ellis Hanson

Babatha vs. the guardians of her son : a struggle for guardianship, legal and practical aspects of P. Yadin 12-15, 27 / Tiziana J. Chiusi

On P. Yadin 37 = P. Hever 65 / Ranon Katzoff

P. Yadin 21-22: sale or lease / Amihai Radzyner

Gift and inheritance law in the Judaean desert documents / Yosef RIvlin

Reflections of the deeds of sale from the Judaean desert in light of rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. Schiffman

Halakhic observance in the Judaean desert documents / Zeev Safrai

Index of passages

Index of names.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Studies presented at an Israel Science Fund Workshop on Law in the Documents from the Judean Desert, Bar-Ilan University, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-85904-0

9786610859047

1-4294-2630-6

90-474-0399-1

1-4337-0528-1

OCLC:

476024171

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047403999 DOI