Endnote 46 – Babatha’s Story

See Yadin, “Expedition D,” IEJ 11 (1961), pp. 38–52, for preliminary publication of some passages and a description. Yadin (Bar-Kokhba, chaps. 10, 12) describes the contents of the letters; Fitzmyer (Manual, nos. 53–60) provides translations for the Aramaic letters. For a list of all the documents from the Bar Kosiba war, see Millar, The Roman Near East, 31 B.C.–A.D. 337 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1993), app. B., pp. 545–552.