商品簡介
In the 1960s, in a three-chambered cave on the western shore of the Dead Sea, excavators discovered two sets of family archives along with skeletons and other artifacts dating from a second-century Jewish revolt against the Romans. The documents clearly described legal issues related to child custody, inheritance and marriage. Independent scholar Oudshoorn closely examines and compares the documents to discern how Roman law actually affected family life, describing external and internal evidence about the law behind the documents and taking as case studies the legal position of daughters in matters of succession, guardianship of women and children, marital relationships within Hellenistic and Jewish law, and legal attitudes toward premarital cohabitation. The result is a remarkably accessible analysis of exactly how much impact Roman legal policies and practices had on the lives of second-century Jews and on the development of their own legal systems. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jacobine G. Oudshoorn, Ph.D. (2005) in Law, University of Groningen, combines proficiency in Classical and Semitic Languages with a profound knowledge of legal issues for specialised research into conflict of law in the Ancient East.
