Courtyard(s) in Ein-Gedi: P.Yadin 11, 19 and 20 of the Babatha Archive

Chapters in this book

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