Studies presented at an Israel Science Fund Workshop on Law in the Documents from the Judean Desert, Bar-Ilan University, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Ranon Katzoff and David Schaps -- What is Hellenistic law? The documents of the Judean desert in the light of the papyri from Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski -- Roman officials in Judaea and Arabia and civil jurisdiction / Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck -- Four Murabbaʻat papyri and the alleged capture of Jerusalem by Bar Kokhba / Hanan Eshel, Magen Broshi and Timothy A. J. Jull -- Marriage payments and succession strategies in the documents from the Judaean desert / Michael L. Satlow -- Judaean desert marriage documents and ekdosis in the Greek law of the Roman period / Uri Yiftach-Firanko -- The widow Babatha and the poor orphan boy / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Babatha vs. the guardians of her son : a struggle for guardianship, legal and practical aspects of P. Yadin 12-15, 27 / Tiziana J. Chiusi -- On P. Yadin 37 = P. Hever 65 / Ranon Katzoff -- P. Yadin 21-22: sale or lease / Amihai Radzyner -- Gift and inheritance law in the Judaean desert documents / Yosef RIvlin -- Reflections of the deeds of sale from the Judaean desert in light of rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Halakhic observance in the Judaean desert documents / Zeʻev Safrai -- Index of passages -- Index of names.