Roman Rule and Jewish Life : : Collected Papers / / Hannah M. Cotton; ed. by Ofer Pogorelsky.

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• VerfasserIn: Cotton, Hannah M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Pogorelsky, Ofer,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 89
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXXII, 607 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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