Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Encyclopedia of Ancient History |
Editors | Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, Sabine R. Huebner |
Place of Publication | Chichester |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Number of pages | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781444338386, 9781405179355 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |
Abstract
The term refers to a set of about two hundred papyrus documents discovered in caves in the Judaean desert, written variously in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Nabataean, and some Latin, mostly by Jews in the period 70–135 CE.
Keywords
- archives and documents
- Judaism
- legal history