Cotton, Collected Papers (De Gruyter)

NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER:

Roman Rule and Jewish Life
Collected Papers

Hannah M. Cotton
Edited by: Ofer Pogorelsky
Volume 89 in the series Studia Judaica
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770438

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Published: March 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110770438
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Published: March 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110191448

About this book

Hannah M Cotton’s collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular, and in the Roman world as a whole. Many of the papers, especially those devoted to the Judean Desert documents of the 2nd century CE have been widely cited. Others, having appeared in less accessible publications, may not have received the attention they deserve.　 On the whole, rather than addressing the grand narratives of world or national history, they look at the texture of life, seeking to provide tentative answers to historical questions and interpretations by paying fine attention to the details of literary and, especially, documentary evidence. Taken together they illuminate fundamental, often legal, questions concerning daily life and the exercise of Roman rule and administration in the early imperial period, and especially, their impact on life as it was lived in the province and the period where Roman and Jewish history fatefully intersected. The volume includes a complete bibliography of her publications./blockquote>

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