A Recent Study of the Babatha and Salome Archives
An essay is presented on the study of Babatha and Salome Komaise archives by author Jacobine Oudshoorn. The study states that the two archives, discovered in the Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan, highlighted the pre-Mishnaic halakhah history. It says that the Babatha archives were usually referred as the brandishing of the praetor's edict and also as the Roman courts of law. Moreover, it relates the two archives on other issues including marriage, guardianship, and succession.