Roman Rule and Jewish Life: Collected Papers

Hannah M. Cotton

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Roman Rule and Jewish Life

Collected Papers

Hannah M. Cotton
Edited by: Ofer Pogorelsky

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Volume 89 | Studia Judaica

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Hannah M Cotton’s collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular, and in the Roman world as a whole. Many of the papers, especially those devoted to the Judean Desert documents of the 2nd century CE have been widely cited. Others, having appeared in less accessible publications, may not have received the attention they deserve.　 On the whole, rather than addressing the grand narratives of world or national history, they look at the texture of life, seeking to provide tentative answers to historical questions and interpretations by paying fine attention to the details of literary and, especially, documentary evidence. Taken together they illuminate fundamental, often legal, questions concerning daily life and the exercise of Roman rule and administration in the early imperial period, and especially, their impact on life as it was lived in the province and the period where Roman and Jewish history fatefully intersected. The volume includes a complete bibliography of her publications.

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Hannah M. Cotton, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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"Without any doubt, every scholar of history of Judaea and Arabia in the early Roman Empire should familiarise themselves with the carefully curated selection of H. M. Cotton's works that is now reprinted as Roman Rule and Jewish Life. The collection not only contains a wealth of scholarly output on these matters but also introduces in an accessible manner some historical and legal matters that are only rarely discussed by other historians."

Edward Dąbrowa, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, in: Electrum. Studia z historii starożytnej 30.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Editor’s Note Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XXI
List of Publications Publicly Available Download PDF	XXV
A Government, Power, and Jurisdiction
Cicero, ad Familiares XIII, 26 and 28: Evidence for revocatio or reiectio Romae/Romam? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Military Tribunates and the Exercise of Patronage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
The Concept of Indulgentia under Trajan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
The Role of Cicero’s Letters of Recommendation: Iustitia versus Gratia? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Cassius Dio, Mommsen and the Quinquefascales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
The Evolution of the So-Called Provincial Law, or: Cicero’s Letters of Recommendation and Private International Law in the Roman World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
B Documents, Languages, and Law
Subscriptions and Signatures in the Papyri from the Judaean Desert: The χειροχρήστης Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
The Languages of the Legal and Administrative Documents from the Judaean Desert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
‘Diplomatics’ or External Aspects of the Legal Documents from the Judaean Desert: Prolegomena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Survival, Adaptation and Extinction: Nabataean and Jewish Aramaic versus Greek in the Legal Documents from the Cave of Letters in Naḥal Ḥever Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
The Bar Kokhba Revolt and the Documents from the Judaean Desert: Nabataean Participation in the Revolt (P.Yadin 52) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Language Gaps in Roman Palestine and the Roman Near East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Private International Law or Conflict of Laws: Reflections on Roman Provincial Jurisdiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Continuity of Nabataean Law in the Petra Papyri: A Methodological Exercise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Change and Continuity in Late Legal Papyri from Palaestina Tertia: Nomos Hellênikos and Ethos Rômaikon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
C Land, Army, and Administration
Babatha’s ‘Patria’: Maḥoza, Maḥoz ‘Eaglatain and Ẓo‘ar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Courtyard(s) in Ein-Gedi: P.Yadin 11, 19 and 20 of the Babatha Archive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Land Tenure in the Documents from the Nabataean Kingdom and the Roman Province of Arabia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Ἡ νέα ἐπαρχεία Ἀραβία: The New Province of Arabia in the Papyri from the Judaean Desert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Some Aspects of the Roman Administration of Judaea/Syria-Palaestina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
The Legio VI Ferrata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Ein Gedi between the Two Revolts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
The Roman Census in the Papyri from the Judaean Desert and the Egyptian κατ’ οἰκίαν ἀπογραφή Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
The Administrative Background to the New Settlement Recently Discovered near Giv‘at Shaul, Ramallah-Shu‘afat Road Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
The Impact of the Roman Army in the Province of Judaea/Syria Palaestina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
D Law, Custom, and Provincial Life
The Guardianship of Jesus Son of Babatha: Roman and Local Law in the Province of Arabia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
The Guardian (ἐπίτροπος) of a Woman in the Documents from the Judaean Desert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
The Law of Succession in the Documents from the Judaean Desert Again Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
The Rabbis and the Documents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
The Impact of the Documentary Papyri from the Judaean Desert on the Study of Jewish History from 70 to 135 CE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
Jewish Jurisdiction under Roman Rule: Prolegomena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
Women and Law in the Documents from the Judaean Desert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
Eleuthera and Brat Horin: Another Look at Babatha’s Ketubba, P.Yadin 10 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
‘The Conception of Jesus’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
Map of Judaea and Arabia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	549
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	585
Index of Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	595

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eBook published on:

March 7, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9783110770438

Hardcover published on:

March 21, 2022

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110191448

Paperback published on:

June 17, 2024

Paperback ISBN:

9783111518534

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Front matter:

32

Main content:

607

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1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770438

eBook ISBN: 9783110770438

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110191448

Paperback ISBN: 9783111518534

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Provincial Jurisdiction; Jewish law; legal contracts; conflicts of law

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Scholars in the field of classics, Jewish Studies, and Theology.

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