Endnote 2 – Literacy in the Time of Jesus

For the Bar-Kokhba documents, see Yigael Yadin, Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971); full publication, Yigael Yadin, Naphtal Lewis and Jonas C. Greenfield, The Documents from the Bar-Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters, I: Greek Papyri (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1989); Yigael Yadin, Jonas C. Greenfield, Ada Yardeni, Baruch A. Levine, The Documents from the Bar-Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters, II: Hebrew, Aramaic and Nabataean Papyri (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2002); for the Marisa deed, see Esther Eshel and Amos Kloner, “An Aramaic Ostracon of an Edomite Marriage Contract from Maresha, Dated 176 B.C.E.,” Israel Exploration Journal 46 (1996), pp. 1–22.