Babatha's Orchard

Babatha's Orchard

The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold

Esler, Philip Francis

Oxford University Press

01/2017

304

Dura

Inglês

9780198767169

15 a 20 dias

This work considers the story behind papyri discovered in 1961 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.
List of Figures Prologue: Re-telling an Ancient Jewish Family Tale 1: Archival Ethnography 2: Nabatea and the Nabateans 3: Life in Maoza 4: Muqimu Borrows Money from his Wife 5: Archelaus Purchases a Date-palm Orchard 6: Archelaus Rescinds his Purchase 7: Shim"on Purchases a Date-palm Orchard 8: P. Yadin 4: Its Character and Parties 9: P. Yadin 4 and Shim"on's Purchase of the Orchard 10: An Ancient Jewish Family Tale Appendix 1: The Emended Nabatean Aramaic Text of P. Yadin 4 (with annotations) Appendix 2: Translations of P. Yadin 1-4 (with annotations) List of References Index of Secondary Authors
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