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 devo...

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