Babatha's orchard : the Yadin Papyri and an ancient Jewish family tale retold

Author/Creator:

Esler, Philip Francis, author

Publication/Creation:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017

Format:

Book

Edition:

First edition.

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Full Title:

Babatha's orchard : the Yadin Papyri and an ancient Jewish family tale retold / Philip F. Esler

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Jews--History--70-638
Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Ḥever Wadi
Manuscripts, Aramaic
Legal documents--Jordan--Antiquities
Jews--History--Bar Kokhba Rebellion, 132-135

Description/Summary

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Babatha's Orchard' tells a story that has gone untold for nearly two thousand years. It is a story that would have perished with the last person familiar with its details-the Jewish woman Babatha, daughter of Shim'on ben Menahem. Babatha was probably killed or enslaved by Roman soldiers at the end of Shim'on ben Kosiba's revolt in 135 CE, when they captured a cave in a wadi running into the western shores of the Dead Sea in which she and other Jewish fugitives had been sheltering. In 1961, a team of archaeologists discovered a cache of possessions that Babatha had carefully hidden before her life or freedom was probably taken by the Romans. Among them were thirty-five legal documents dated from 94 CE to 132 CE, written on papyrus in Aramaic and Greek, relating to Babatha and her family, and the leather pouch in which they had been kept.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages : : illustrations, map.)

Local Note:

Available to current Emory students, faculty and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937796513502486

ISBN:

9780191821349 (electronic bk.)
0191821349 (electronic bk.)