Law in the documents of the Judaean desert
By: edited by Ranon Katzoff & David Schaps.
Contributors: Katzoff, Ranon; Schaps, David M..
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;; v.96
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Jewish law -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources -- Congresses.; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Sources -- Congresses.; Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Dead Sea Region (Israel and Jordan) -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Studies presented at an Israel Science Fund Workshop on Law in the Documents from the Judean Desert, Bar-Ilan University, 1998--Intro.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Studies presented at an Israel Science Fund Workshop on Law in the Documents from the Judean Desert, Bar-Ilan University, 1998.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ranon Katzoff and David Schaps; title: What is Hellenistic law?  The documents of the Judean desert in the light of the papyri from Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski; title: Roman officials in Judaea and Arabia and civil jurisdiction / Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck; title: Four Murabbaʻat papyri and the alleged capture of Jerusalem by Bar Kokhba / Hanan Eshel, Magen Broshi and Timothy A. J. Jull; title: Marriage payments and succession strategies in the documents from the Judaean desert / Michael L. Satlow; title: Judaean desert marriage documents and ekdosis in the Greek law of the Roman period / Uri Yiftach-Firanko; title: The widow Babatha and the poor orphan boy / Ann Ellis Hanson; title: Babatha vs. the guardians of her son : a struggle for guardianship, legal and practical aspects of P. Yadin 12-15, 27 / Tiziana J. Chiusi; title: On P. Yadin 37 = P. Hever 65 / Ranon Katzoff; title: P. Yadin 21-22: sale or lease / Amihai Radzyner; title: Gift and inheritance law in the Judaean desert documents / Yosef RIvlin; title: Reflections of the deeds of sale from the Judaean desert in light of rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. Schiffman; title: Halakhic observance in the Judaean desert documents / Zeʻev Safrai; title: Index of passages; title: Index of names.