Babatha's Orchard: The Yadin Papyri and an Ancient Jewish Family Tale Retold by

by Philip F. Esler

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Babatha's Orchard by Philip F. Esler Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This work considers the story behind papyri discovered in 1961 in the Cave of Letters by the Dead Sea. The archive contains various contracts and deeds entered into by a Jewish woman named Babatha, daughter of a land owner named Shim on, at the end of the first century. Publisher Description In 1961 archaeologists discovered a family archive of legal papyri in a cave near the Dead Sea where their owner, the Jewish woman Babatha, had hidden them in 135 CE at the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Babatha s Orchard analyzes the oldest four of these papyri to argue that underlying them is a hitherto undetected and surprising train of events concerning how Babatha s father, Shim on, purchased a date-palm orchard in Maoza on the southern shore of theDead Sea in 99 CE that he later gave to Babatha. The central features of the story, untold for two millennia, relate to how a high Nabatean official had purchased the orchard only a month before, but suddenlyrescinded the purchase, and how Shim on then acquired it, in enlarged form, from the vendor. Teasing out the details involves deploying the new methodology of archival ethnography, combined with a fresh scrutiny of the papyri (written in Nabatean Aramaic), to investigate the Nabatean and Jewish individuals mentioned and their relationships within the social, ethnic, economic, and political realities of Nabatea at t

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2017
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780198767169
• Condition: Fine

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