Figure 18. Hebrew letter of Ben Kosiba (Bar Kokhba) dispatched to{Ein Gedi, reprimanding
Masabala and Yehonatan for “living well, eating and drinking off the property of the House of
Israel, and [caring] nothing about your brethren”(Photo Clara Amit, Courtesy Israel Antiquities
Authority)Figure 19. Two pages of a papyrus codex showing text from the book of Leviticus in Greek.
Dating to ca. 200c.e., this is one of the oldest Septuagint manuscripts extant for the book of Le-
viticus(The Schøyen Collection, MS 2649)EERDMANS -- Early Judaism (Collins and Harlow) final photo section
Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:35:14 PM