The Personal Papers of Salome, Also Called Komäıse

Abstract

Abstract work: In addition to the Babatha archive (see entry 62) and papyri associated with the second Jewish revolt under Bar Kokhba, papyri found in the Judean desert also testify to the lives of Jewish women and men in the same period. The following selections pertain to a woman named Salome, also called Komäıse. translation, text, and bibliography: Hannah M. Cotton and Ada Yardeni, Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek Documentary Texts from Nahfial Hfi ever and Other Sites, with an Appendix Containing Alleged Qumran Texts (the Seiyâl Collection II), Discoveries in the Judean Desert 27 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). additional bibliography: Tal Ilan, “Premarital Cohabitation in Ancient Judea: The Evidence of the Babatha Archive and the Mishnah (Ketubbot 1:4),” HTR 86 (1993): 247–64; Michael Satlow, Jewish Marriage in Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).