Ang mga papeles ni Babatha
Nakaligtas sa mismong papeles ng pamilya ang pagpaparehistrong panlalawigan ng Roma, at ang mundo ng batas na ginagalawan ng isang karaniwang pamilyang Judio.
Pinatunayan ng hukayManuskritoAD 94–132
Thirty-five documents a woman bundled in a leather purse and hid in a cave before the Bar Kokhba revolt, and never came back for: her marriage contracts, her son's guardianship dispute, court summonses, and a land declaration made to the Roman census of AD 127, dated by the consuls of that year.
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
- Natagpuan
- The Cave of Letters, Nahal Hever, above the Dead Sea, 1961 — Yigael Yadin's expedition
- Nasa
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Shrine of the Book)
- Wika
- Greek, Aramaic and Nabataean
- Paano ito nakarating sa atin
- Hinukay, o nakatayo pa rin kung saan ito itinayo.
Ang ipinapakita nito
Sixty years after the Gospels' setting and in the neighbouring province of Arabia. It shows how a census declaration was actually made and worded — useful for reading Luke 2, and no evidence for the events of Luke 2.
Paano ito ginagamit ng mga istoryador
A cornerstone of Roman legal and social history in the East, and the usual comparison in discussions of the census in Luke.
Sa Kasulatan
Mga sanggunian
- Lewis, The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters (1989)
- Cotton, "The Guardianship of Jesus son of Babatha", JRS 83 (1993)
Sa ngayon ay nasa Ingles ang mga paglalarawang ito. Susunod ang mga salin.