Woman's 1,800 Year Old Scrolls found in a Cave near the Dead Sea

Babatha, a Jewish woman who lived in the what is now Jordan at 1,800 years ago, saved the Cave of Letters documents that were discovered a cave near the Dead Sea in 1961. The documents included legal contracts concerning marriage, property transfers, and guardianship. These documents give a vivid picture of life for an upper-middle class Jewish woman as well as insight to the Roman bureaucracy and legal system during that time.

It is believed that Babatha hid as a fugitive, saving her documents for a return to prosperity from the Roman legions who eneded up killing 600,000 Jews to quell the rebellion. Her bones may have been one of the piles of remains found in the cave or she may of been captured.

SOURCES
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/scrolls/life.html
https://www.uwec.edu/jolhm/Cave/histone2.htm

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