Footnote 2 – Recollections from 40 Years Ago: More Scrolls Lie Buried

Babata was a Jewish woman from a village on the shore of the Dead Sea who fled to the cave with her family’s legal documents during the Second Jewish Revolt. See Joseph A. Fitzmyer’s review of The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters: Greek Papyri, edited by Naphtali Lewis, in Books in Brief, BAR 16:03.