Resolving Disputes in Second Century Bce Herakleopolis: A Study in Jewish Legal Reasoning in Hellenistic Egypt

by Robert A. Kugler and Lewis & Clark College

Resolving Disputes challenges the consensus that the petitions to the leaders of "the πολίτευμα of the Jews in Herakleopolis" (P.Polit.Iud. 8.4-5) prove that while the Ptolemies granted Jews limited self-governance according to their ancestral traditions, the petitioners nonetheless relied almost exclusively on Ptolemaic Greek law to make their agreements and settle their arguments. Reading the appeals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004505636
• ISBN13: 9789004505636
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 288 Pages