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Hardcover Resolving Disputes in Second Century Bce Herakleopolis: A Study in Jewish Legal Reasoning in Hellenistic Egypt Book

ISBN: 9004505636

ISBN13: 9789004505636

Resolving Disputes in Second Century Bce Herakleopolis: A Study in Jewish Legal Reasoning in Hellenistic Egypt

Resolving Disputes challenges the consensus that the petitions to the leaders of "the πολίτευμα of the Jews in Herakleopolis" (P.Polit.Iud. 8.4-5) prove that while the Ptolemies granted Jews limited self-governance according to their ancestral traditions, the petitioners nonetheless relied almost exclusively on Ptolemaic Greek law to make their agreements and settle their arguments. Reading the appeals...

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