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September 27, 2017

A 2nd-Century Woman’s Financial Documents Offer a Glimpse of Ancient Judean Life

Babatha’s Orchard.

In Babatha’s Orchard, the lawyer-turned-historian Philip Esler pieces together the story of an ancient Jewish woman whose possessions were found by the Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin in 1961. Elizabeth Shanks Alexander writes in her review. (Free registration required.)

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