Localized law : the Babatha and Salome Komaise archives / Kimberley Czajkowski.
2017
KB197.2 .C93 2017 (Mapit)
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Localized law : the Babatha and Salome Komaise archives / Kimberley Czajkowski.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Copyright
© 2017.
Description
xii, 240 pages ; 23 cm.
Series
Oxford studies in Roman society and law.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Beginning to reinterpret the archives
The scribes
Legal advisors
The parties
The alternatives to the assizes?
The Roman officials.
Beginning to reinterpret the archives
The scribes
Legal advisors
The parties
The alternatives to the assizes?
The Roman officials.
Summary
In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea. This was first part of the Nabataean Kingdom, but came under direct Roman rule in 106 CE as part of the province of Roman Arabia. The archives these two women left behind not only provide a tantalizing glimpse into their legal lives and those of their families, but also offer a vivid window onto the ways in which the inhabitants of this region interacted with their new rulers and how this affected the practice of law in this part of the Roman Empire. The papers in these archives are remarkable in their legal diversity, detailing Babatha and Salome Komaise's property and marriages, as well as their disputes. Nabataean, Roman, Greek, and Jewish legal elements are all in evidence, and are often combined within a single papyrus. As such, identifying the supposed 'operative law' of the documents has proven a highly contentious task: scholarly advocates of each of these traditions have failed to reach any true consensus and there remains division particularly between those who argue for a 'Roman' versus a 'Jewish' framework.00.
Note
In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea. This was first part of the Nabataean Kingdom, but came under direct Roman rule in 106 CE as part of the province of Roman Arabia. The archives these two women left behind not only provide a tantalizing glimpse into their legal lives and those of their families, but also offer a vivid window onto the ways in which the inhabitants of this region interacted with their new rulers and how this affected the practice of law in this part of the Roman Empire. The papers in these archives are remarkable in their legal diversity, detailing Babatha and Salome Komaise's property and marriages, as well as their disputes. Nabataean, Roman, Greek, and Jewish legal elements are all in evidence, and are often combined within a single papyrus. As such, identifying the supposed 'operative law' of the documents has proven a highly contentious task: scholarly advocates of each of these traditions have failed to reach any true consensus and there remains division particularly between those who argue for a 'Roman' versus a 'Jewish' framework.00.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
RBLL2
Call Number
KB197.2 .C93 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780198777335
0198777337
0198777337
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