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I . D. A m u s i η, Iz novykh rabot po papirologii = Neiv works on papyrology. Vestnik Drevney Istorii (= VDI), 1959, No. 2, p p . 192-203.
This is a detailed review of С.P. Jud. I a n d R . T a u b e n s c h l a g's, The Law2. I n the first part the reviewer highly praises the methodological and philological aspects of t h e Corpus a n d shows t h e values of t h e p a p y r i edited in this v o l u m e for t h e knowledge of t h e social a n d economic history of t h e Jewish p o p u l a t i o n in E g y p t . Resides his own notes a n d observations Mr A m u s i n quotes t h e propositions of S. J . L u r i e (contained in a l e t t e r to t h e reviewer) t o c o m p l e t e : C.P. Jud. I , 128, 10: ]ων αν έγύης μεθ-ήναι ( = μεθεΐναι?); 135, 6 : [άξε]σ&οα ; 141,8: καταλ[λά]ττιν.
I. D . A m u s i n, Arameyskiy kontrakt 134 g.n.e. iz okrestnostey Mertvogo moria. Drevniy mir. Sbornik statey ν chest' akademika V. V. S t r u ν e = An Ara-maic contract dated A.D. 134 from the environs of the Dead Sea. The Ancien-World. A collection of essays in honour of the academician V. V. Struve. Moscow, 1962, p p . 202-213.
Mr A m u s i n gives here a réédition, t h e Russian t r a n s l a t i o n a n d a detailed c o m m e n t a r y of t h e t e x t published in 1954 (cf. J . T . M i 1 i к . Un contrat juif de Van 134 après J. C. Revue biblique 61 (1954) p p . 182-190). T h e editor offers a v e r y i m p o r t a n t i m p r o v e m e n t in reading t h e last word in t h e 1.10: h w r or h r r . Consequently t h e corresponding f r a g m e n t of t h e c o n t r a c t m u s t be under-stood as a declaration of t h e seller t h a t t h e b u y e r is „ f r e e " or „ f r e e d " f r o m a n y possible vindicatio concerning a sold house. This e m e n d a t i o n p u t s aside a series of o f t e n c o n t r a d i c t o r y i n t e r p r e t a t i o n s of this d o c u m e n t , allowing for a h a r m o -nious a n d logical reconstruction of its c o n s t i t u e n t p a r t s . Mr Amusin d r a w s also parallels b e t w e e n this contract a n d corresponding papyrological a n d Tal-mudic materials. I n t h e light of these parallels it is clear t h a t legal p r a c t i c e a n d f o r m u l a e which were established in t h e N e a r E a s t a n d E g y p t in t h e V I I - V I centuries R.C. r e m a i n e d u n c h a n g e d .
W. G. R o r u k h o v i c h , Antichnye avtory о proizvodstve papirusa-bumagi ν Egipte. Uchenye zapiski Gorkovskogo Gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya
