Law in the documents of the Judaean desert /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Katzoff, Ranon, Schaps, David M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2005]
Series:	Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v.96.
Subjects:	Jewish law > Cases. Jewish law > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Ranon Katzoff and David Schapps
1. What is Hellenistic law? The documents of the Judean desert in the light of the papyri from Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski
2. Roman officials in Judaea and Arabia and civil jurisdiction / Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck
3. Four Murabbaʻat papyri and the alleged capture of Jerusalem by Bar Kokhba / Hanan Eshel, Magen Broshi and Timothy A. J. Jull
4. Marriage payments and succession strategies in the documents from the Judaean desert / Michael L. Satlow
5. Judaean desert marriage documents and Ekdosis in the Greek law of the Roman period / Uri Yiftach-Firanko
6.The Widow Babatha and the poor orphan boy / Ann Ellis Hanson
7. Babatha vs. the guardians of her son : a struggle for guardianship, legal and practical aspects of P. Yadin 12-15, 27 / Tiziana J. Chiusi
8. On P. Yadin 37 = P. Hever 65 / Ranon Katzoff
9. P. Yadin 21-22: sale or lease / Amihai Radzyner
10 Gift and inheritance law in the Judaean desert documents / Yosef RIvlin
11.Reflections of the deeds of sale from the Judaean desert in light of rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. Schiffman
12. Halakhic observance in the Judaean desert documents / Zeʻev Safrai
Index of passages
index of names.