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Natan b. Avraham (16th c)

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
12 سبتمبر 1531–28 سبتمبر 1543 CE
Social roles
  • Jewish communal official
  • Jewish community member
Other name
נתן הסופר בכה׳׳ר אברהם זלה׳׳ה

Description / Bio

Court scribe within the Rabbanite community of Cairo during the sixteenth century. Dated documents currently attest that Natan's scribal career spanned the 1530–1540s CE. Natan b. Avraham served under the well-known rabbinic authority ha-Radba''z, Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra (ca. 1479-1573 CE). The Radba''z mentions this scribe in at least one of his responsa: Rabbi David b. Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, Vol. I of responsa, 310, cited in Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky, "The Community and its Institutions / הקהילה ומוסדותיה", in The Jews of Ottoman Egypt 1517-1914, ed., Jacob Landau (Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, 1988), 177.

Matthew Dudley, "Natan b. Avraham (16th c)," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/natan-b-avraham-16th-c/, accessed June 5, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/natan-b-avraham-16th-c/