EUSA History Society event

Join us for a talk by Dr Kimberley Czajkowski.

During controlled excavations in 1960-1961, a scrappy leather purse was found in The Cave of Letters on the Western coast of the Dead Sea. When unwrapped, this revealed the paperwork of a Jewish woman called Babatha, who had lived in the village of Maoza in Roman Arabia in the second century CE: marriage contracts, documents related to court cases, deeds of gifts are all included.  Taken together, these documents provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of a Jewish family in a newly created province of the Roman empire and give us distinctive material with which to tackle the question: What did it mean to be Jewish under Rome?

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