Rabbinic Law in its Roman and Near Eastern Context

Catherine Hezser : Introduction - Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley : Ezra, Nehemiah, and Some Early Greek Lawgivers - Hannah Cotton : 'Diplomatics' or External Aspects of the Legal Documents from the Judean Desert: Prolegomena - Jill Harries : Creating Legal Space: Settling Disputes in the Roman Empire - Natalie B. Dohrman : The Boundaries of the Law and the Problem of Jurisdiction in an Early Palestinian Midrash - Leib Moscovitz : Legal Fictions in Rabbinic Law and Roman Law: Some Comparative Observations - Catherine Hezser : Slaves and Slavery in Rabbinic and Roman Law - Hayim Lapin : Maintenance of Wives and Children in Early Rabbinic and Documentary Texts from Roman Palestine - Bernard S. Jackson : Problems in the Development of the Ketubah Payment: The Shimon ben Shetach Tradition - Yaakov Elman : Marriage and Marital Property in Rabbinic and Sasanian Law - Ranon Katzoff : Children of Intermarriage: Roman and Jewish Conceptions