Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, Volume 1: The Ptolemaic Period

PREFACE......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 11
EXPLANATORY NOTE......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 17
1. THE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD (323-30 B.C.)......Page 21
2. THE EARLY ROMAN PERIOD (30 B.C.-A.D. 117)......Page 68
3. THE LATER ROMAN AND BYZANTINE PERIOD (A.D. 117-641)......Page 113
PART I: DOCUMENTS OF THE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD......Page 133
SECTION I: JEWS OF PALESTINE IN THE ZENO PAPYRI......Page 135
1. Sale of a slave girl......Page 138
2. Fragments from Palestinian Lists......Page 141
3. A list of Greeks and Semites in Palestine......Page 144
4. Letter from Toubias to Apollonios......Page 145
5. Letter from Toubias to Apollonios......Page 148
6. Letter from Alexandros to Oryas......Page 149
SECTION II: JEWS OF THE FAYÛM IN THE ZENON PAPYRI......Page 151
7. From an account of lamp-oil......Page 152
8. A fragment of an account......Page 153
9. Pasis the Jew......Page 154
10. Account of bricks......Page 156
11. From an account of barley......Page 157
12. Letter from Somoelis to Zenon......Page 158
13. A memorandum to Zenon......Page 160
14. A declaration to a police-officer......Page 161
15. Drafts of letters from Zenon......Page 163
16. Fragment of a petition......Page 165
17. Fragment of an account......Page 166
SECTION III: JEWISH SOLDIERS AND MILITARY SETTLERS IN THE THIRD AND SECOND CENTURIES B.C.......Page 167
18. Deed of renunciation......Page 168
19. A trial before the Court of Ten......Page 171
20. A deed of loan......Page 176
21. Notification of a robbery......Page 177
22. Cession of a quarter......Page 178
23. Loan on mortgage......Page 182
24. Renewal of a loan......Page 184
25. Contract of a loan......Page 187
26. Contract of a loan......Page 188
27. A Jewish cavalry officer......Page 190
28. A list of sheep and goats......Page 191
29. A list of military settlers......Page 193
30. A list of Jews and Macedonians......Page 195
31. A list of military settlers......Page 196
32. From an account of land and crops......Page 197
33. Jews and Greeks in Psenyris......Page 199
34. A fragment from a census-paper......Page 200
36. A fragment of a property-declaration......Page 201
37. A petition concerning a contract of lease......Page 202
38. A petition concerning a purchase of wool......Page 205
41. Account of receipts of wine......Page 207
43. Petition of a Jewish peasant......Page 208
44. A fragment of a register......Page 209
46. An agreement about the joint use of a pottery......Page 210
47. Jewish land-holders in the Arsinoite nome......Page 212
SECTION V: JEWISH TAX-COLLECTORS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND PEASANTS IN UPPER EGYPT......Page 214
48-72. Receipts issued by the banks......Page 223
73-96. Receipts issued by the granaries......Page 231
97-103. Receipts for the delivery of chaff......Page 239
104-111. Receipts issued by tax-collectors......Page 241
112-124. Ostraka of various contents......Page 243
126. A Greek testament......Page 247
127. Dositheos son of Drimylos......Page 250
128. A plaint of a wife against her husband......Page 256
129. A complaint concerning the theft of a mantle......Page 259
130. Petition concerning crops......Page 261
131. A police-report......Page 263
132. Letter from Herodes to Onias......Page 264
133. A complaint of assault......Page 266
134. Land-survey at Arsinoe......Page 267
135. A letter from Menon to Hermokrates......Page 269
137. A Prostagma of the king and queen......Page 271
138. Resolution of a Jewish Association......Page 272
139. Jewish dining-club at Apollinopolis Magna......Page 274
140. From a list of names......Page 275
141. A letter from Herakles to Ptolemy......Page 276
INDEXES......Page 277
INDEX TO THE PROLEGOMENA......Page 279
1. Alexander the Great and the royal family of the Ptolemies......Page 299
2. Personal names......Page 300
3. Geographical names and εθνικα......Page 307
4. Technical terms......Page 309
INDEX OF SOURCES......Page 311