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

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

Label
Babatha's orchard : the Yadin Papyri and an ancient Jewish family tale retold
Title
Babatha's orchard
Title remainder
the Yadin Papyri and an ancient Jewish family tale retold
Statement of responsibility
Philip F. Esler
Title variation
Yadin Papyri and an ancient Jewish family tale retold
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
  • eng
  • heb
  • eng
Summary
"Babatha's Orchard' tells a story that has gone untold for nearly 2,000 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 Menaḥem. 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." -- Page 4 of cover
Cataloging source
YDX
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Esler, Philip Francis
Dewey number
956.94/02
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Language note
In English with occasional Hebrew
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Jews
  • Excavations (Archaeology)
  • Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri)
  • Legal documents
  • Jews
  • Judean Desert
  • Jewish women
  • Domestic relations (Jewish law)
  • Domestic relations (Roman law)
  • Nabataeans
  • Families
Label
Babatha's orchard : the Yadin Papyri and an ancient Jewish family tale retold, Philip F. Esler
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
ocn976194121
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xviii, 282 pages
Isbn
9780198767169
Lccn
2016945505
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, map
System control number
(OCoLC)976194121
Label
Babatha's orchard : the Yadin Papyri and an ancient Jewish family tale retold, Philip F. Esler
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
ocn976194121
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xviii, 282 pages
Isbn
9780198767169
Lccn
2016945505
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, map
System control number
(OCoLC)976194121

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