Babatha: The Life of A Jewish Woman in the Time of Bar Kokhba
Wed 25 Nov · Venue to be confirmed
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Babatha, daughter of Shimon, grew up in Maoza, a date-growing village on the southeastern part of the southern basin of the Dead Sea (modern day Ghor as-Safi). She is the probably the only ancient Jewish woman about whom one could write a book-length biography. Yet she is not mentioned in any historical source. The information about her comes from her archive of 35 family legal documents dated 93–132 CE that she hid in a cave in Naḥal Ḥever, near En-gedi, at the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt. This is the only such archive to survive from ancient Judea and the surrounding area.