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Resolving Disputes in Second Century BCE Herakleopolis

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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 limite...
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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 in their proper juridical context, this study shows how these Jewish petitioners in fact made sophisticated use of their ancestral norms, drawing from them principles that complemented and contradicted prevailing Greek law. The Jews appealing to the leaders of the πολίτευμα in Herakleopolis embraced Torah.
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Price: $147.00
Pages: 276
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
Publication Date: 13 April 2022
ISBN: 9789004505636
Format: Hardcover
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Robert A. Kugler, Ph.D. (1994), University of Notre Dame, is the Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies at Lewis & Clark College. He has published on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish documentary papyri, including Leviticus at Qumran (Brill, 2017).