A divorce certificate from the Judaean Desert lay unpublished for 50 years, perhaps to hide its unorthodoxy. A recent English translation has emended the lettering in order to show it was authored by a man, but the original lettering clearly shows that a woman hired a scribe to write a divorce certificate against her husband. This concurs with other evidence that first century Jewish women could divorce their husbands, as found in early rabbinic traditions and Mark 10.12.
"Jewish women divorcing their husbands in early Judaism: the background to papyrus Se'elim 13"
A divorce certificate from the Judaean Desert lay unpublished for 50 years, perhaps to hide its unorthodoxy. A recent English translation has emended the lettering in order to show it was authored by a man, but the original lettering clearly shows that a woman hired a scribe to write a divorce certificate against her husband. This concurs with other evidence that first century Jewish women could divorce their husbands, as found in early rabbinic traditions and Mark 10.12.
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