A document from "year 4 of the destruction of the house of Israel

Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel, Ada Yardeni

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Abstract

The article presents a document, a receipt of a ketubba and a waiver of claims, that bears the date Year 4 of the Destruction of the House of Israel. The counting is from after the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt, and the document thus would date to 140 C.E. The discussion consists of text, translation, notes on readings, commentary, and palaeographical description.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-28
Number of pages28
JournalDead Sea Discoveries
Volume18
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

Keywords

  • Aramaic
  • Bar Kokhba
  • Hebrew
  • Jewish documents
  • Papyrus

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