Introduction / Ranon Katzoff and David Schaps

What is Hellenistic law? The documents of the Judean desert in the light of the papyri from Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski

Roman officials in Judaea and Arabia and civil jurisdiction / Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck

Four Murabbaʻat papyri and the alleged capture of Jerusalem by Bar Kokhba / Hanan Eshel, Magen Broshi and Timothy A. J. Jull

Marriage payments and succession strategies in the documents from the Judaean desert / Michael L. Satlow

Judaean desert marriage documents and ekdosis in the Greek law of the Roman period / Uri Yiftach-Firanko

The widow Babatha and the poor orphan boy / Ann Ellis Hanson

Babatha vs. the guardians of her son : a struggle for guardianship, legal and practical aspects of P. Yadin 12-15, 27 / Tiziana J. Chiusi

On P. Yadin 37 = P. Hever 65 / Ranon Katzoff

P. Yadin 21-22: sale or lease / Amihai Radzyner

Gift and inheritance law in the Judaean desert documents / Yosef RIvlin

Reflections of the deeds of sale from the Judaean desert in light of rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. Schiffman

Halakhic observance in the Judaean desert documents / Zeʻev Safrai

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Index of names.

Jewish law > History > To 1500 > Sources > Congresses.

Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. > Sources > Congresses.

Jews > Legal status, laws, etc. > Dead Sea Region (Israel and Jordan) > History > To 1500 > Sources > Congresses.