A Divorce Agreement from Egypt, Perhaps Jewish/Judean

Abstract

Abstract work: Another papyrus from Bousiris, this one is considered Jewish on the basis of the names of the wife’s parents, which are attested for Jews/Judeans in Egypt in this period. Apart from this, the agreement contains nothing explicitly or distinctively Jewish and much that is common in non-Jewish documents of this period. The editors of CPJ note that the papyrus might point to a marriage between a Jewish woman and a non-Jewish man. text and translation: A. Fuks, CPJ 2, 10–12. bibliography: Women and Christian Origins, 59–60; Bernadette J. Brooten, “Mark 10.2–12, Divorced Wife,” in WIS, 428–30; Tal Ilan, “Notes and Observations on a Newly Published Divorce Bill from the Judean Desert,” HTR 89 (1996): 195– 202; A. Schremer, “Divorce in Papyrus Sfie’elim 13 Once Again: A Reply to Tal Ilan,” HTR 91 (1998): 193–204 (with response by Ilan).