In the sunny month of June, in 176 B.C.E., members of two of Maresha’s rich Edomite families celebrated their marriage. The details of the wedding between QWSRM and his bride, Arsinoe, survive on the oldest marriage contract ever discovered in the Holy Land.1 Archaeologists at Maresha found seven fragments of the document (photo, right; … Continue reading Edomite Wedding Vows