The Masada Get

This Aramaic document was found at Wadi Murabaat, in a cave used by Jewish rebels during the Bar Kokhba revolt (see Bar Kokhba Letters and Archaeology). It is a Jewish decree of divorce, or get, from Joseph son of Naqsan to Miriam daughter of Jonathan. The get was presented at Masada and is dated to “year six,” that is, six years after the start of the First Jewish Revolt, or 72 CE. The text gives the wife permission to marry any Jewish man she chooses and bears a striking resemblance to Jewish divorce documents written millennia later.