“Ancestral estates” in Aramaic contracts: the legal significance of the term mhḥsn
The two family archives from the Elephantine Jewish Community contain respectively four (C 5, 6, 8, 9) and six documents (K 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12) dealing with a single house each. One of the questions which arises is the occurrence, once in each of the archives (C 8:2; K 12:5), of the designation mhḥs...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 1982-01, Vol.114 (1), p.3-9 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The two family archives from the Elephantine Jewish Community contain respectively four (C 5, 6, 8, 9) and six documents (K 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12) dealing with a single house each. One of the questions which arises is the occurrence, once in each of the archives (C 8:2; K 12:5), of the designation
mhḥsn
, translated either as “holding property” or as “military colonist”. Is the term of general meaning and its occurrence in each of the passages coincidence or is it a technical term with legal significance? |
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| ISSN: | 0035-869X 1356-1863 2051-2066 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0035869X00158551 |