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The research presented in this volume was done during an appointment as PhD student at the Faculty of Law (department of Legal History) of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Having obtained MAs in both Classical Languages and Semitic Languages, and at the time completing an MA in Law, I was asked to develop a research proposal that would cover all of those fields.

As the Babatha archive consists of documents in Aramaic and Greek, and represents legal documents drawn up in an area where several legal systems could have exerted their influence, it seemed natural to choose this archive as an object for a study into the relationship between laws and the possible conflict of laws as represented in the papyri from this archive. Research began in September 2000 and was completed in February 2005.

As the volume Law in the Documents of the Judaean Desert (ed. R. Katzoff and D. Schaps; SJSJ 106; Leiden: Brill, 2005) appeared in April 2005, I managed to include only a few brief references to this volume in the manuscript that was submitted for the PhD defense. While preparing the original manuscript for the present presentation as part of the STDJ series, I took the opportunity to include more elaborate references to the aforementioned work and where necessary full discussions of the conclusions reached there that directly relate to my arguments as presented here. As to the contents of the arguments and the conclusions reached in this study, these are identical to the ones successfully defended in November 2005.

I trust that this volume, which presents a new way of understanding the exact relationship between local and Roman law in the Judaean Desert documents in the light of conflict of law, will find its way to an interested readership, eager to investigate for themselves the arguments and conclusions presented here and their merits in understanding more about (possible) conflict of laws and the way in which this conflict of laws was dealt with in second-century Arabia.

In general footnotes use abbreviations for journals, series and short references for the major editions of the texts from the archives used in this study.

Full bibliographical details can always be found in the Bibliography, but for convenience’s sake a list of abbreviations is provided here.

ATTM I, E and II:

Beyer, Klaus. Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer samt den Inschriften aus Palästina, dem Testament Levis aus der Kairoer Genisa, der Fastenrolle und den alten talmudischen Zitaten. Aramaistische Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Deutung, Grammatik/Worterbuch, Deutsch-aramäische Wortliste, Register. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984 (Band I), 1994 (Ergänzungsband), 2004 (Band II).

BAR - Biblical Archaeology Review

BASP - Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists

Cotton/Yardeni: volume containing the texts and translations of and commentary on the Salome Komaise archive:

Cotton, Hannah M., and Ada Yardeni. Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek Documentary Texts from Nahal Hever and Other Sites, with an Appendix Containing Alleged Qumran Texts (The Seiyal collection II), DJD XXVII, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997

CHANE - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

Documents II - volume containing texts and translations of and commentary on Aramaic documents from the Babatha archive:

Yadin, Yigael, Jonas C. Greenfield, Ada Yardeni, and Baruch Levine, eds. The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters: Hebrew, Aramaic and Nabataean-Aramaic Papyri. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, 2002

DJD - Discoveries in the Judaean Desert

EDSS - Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls

HTR - Harvard Theological Review

ICS - Illinois Classical Studies

IEJ - Israel Exploration Journal

ILR - Israel Law Review

ICS - Illinois Classical Studies

JANES - Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University JESHO - Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient JJP - Journal of Juristic Papyrology

JJS - Journal for Jewish Studies

JQR - Jewish Quarterly Review

JRS - Journal of Roman Studies

JSJ - Journal for the Study of Judaism

JSS - Journal of Semitic Studies

Lewis - volume containing the texts and translations of and commentary on the Greek documents from the Babatha archive:

Lewis, Naphtali, ed.

The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters: Greek Papyri, with Aramaic and Nabataean signatures and subscriptions, edited by Yigael Yadin and Jonas Greenfield. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1989

RB - Revue Biblique

RIDA - Revue International des Droits de lAntiquite

SCI - Scripta Classica Israelica

SJSJ - Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

STDJ - Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

TSAJ - Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism

ZAVA - Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie

ZDPV - Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins

ZNT - Zeitschrift für Neues Testament

ZPE - Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik

ZSav. - Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung

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Source: Oudshoorn Jacobine G.. The Relationship between Roman and Local Law in the Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives. IDC Publishers,2007. — 456 p.. 2007

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