Endnote 39 – Babatha’s Story

See Yadin, Greenfield and Yardeni, “Babatha’s Ketubba,” p. 94. The other, Galilean custom, allows the widow to remain and be maintained in her late husband’s house unless she remarries. The Palestinian Talmud, Ketubbot 4.15 (29a), approves of the Galilean practice as honorable and disdains the Judean as mercenary.