TAL ILAN and NOAH HACHAM - The Jews of Egypt and Israel: Fresh Insights from Newly Published Papyri

The Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum project is an wide-ranging initiative to build on Tcherikover’s seminal corpora of papyri relating to Jews and Judaism. This lecture explored the project, and shows how it differs from its predecessor, by taking you on an exploration of two of the intriguing papyri in the new corpus.
After an introduction to the project, Noah Hachim discussed the Nash Papyrus from the Cambridge University Collection. This is the oldest Hebrew Bible papyrus found in Egypt, dating to the 2nd century BCE, and illustrates the connection between the early history of the Jews of Egypt and Israel.
Tal Ilan then examined a papyrus from 133 CE, now in Berlin, in which a certain Julia Crispina is seen to be present in the Fayum in Egypt - proposing that this is the same woman who appears on two papyri in the Babatha archive in the Judean Desert, belonging to the period just before the outbreak of the Bar Kokhba revolt.